Nigerian Times

25 Nov 2007 18:17 Africa/Lagos NEWSWEEK: Cover: Rudy's Roots How Growing Up in a Family of Cops and Hoods Shaped Giuliani's Moral Universe NEW YORK, Nov. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- In the December 3 Newsweek cover "Rudy's Roots" (on newsstands Monday, November 26), a team of correspondents look at presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani's background and influences that explain his moral code, which is at once rigid (in public) and flexible (in private life). Click here for the High Resolution Photograph As Editor-at-Large Evan Thomas and Senior Writer Suzanne Smalley write, on the one hand, Giuliani has been a crusader against outlaw policemen, as well as mobsters, pornographers, drug dealers, crooked businessmen and politicians and death-dealing jihadists. He now offers himself as the presidential candidate who would deliver us from evil, from terrorism abroad and corruption at home. On the other hand, he was the man who appointed Bernard Kerik, now under indictm...

Shell is implicated in the crimes of misappropriation of public funds and large scale money laundering committed by Chief James Ibori, the ex-governor of Delta state in southern Nigeria. The following report by Sahara Reporters is an important evidence againt Chief James Ibori, Shell and others implicated, as his accomplices. October 21, 2007 How James Ibori bought a Bombardier jet from Canada Filed under: Uncategorized — Administrator @ 12:56 am Deed of Assignment to procure Bombardier from CanadaDeed of Assignment to procure Bombardier from CanadaFmrGovIborisBombadierJet[1].pdfSaharareporters, New York Documents available to Saharareporters paint a picture of how former Governor James Ibori of Delta State used international collaborators, offshore shell companies and local assistants to buy a Bombardier Challenger jet from Bombardier Aerospace Incorporated, Canada’s leading private jet manufacturing company. A series of documents compiled by investigators on Ibori’s large scale ...

Ribadu Again! By Ngozi Saromi, culled from This Day Newspaper of October 08, 2007. Tuesday, 09 October 2007 Dele Momodu, publisher of the Ovation magazine and most lately a columnist of THISDAY newspaper, attempts, through his piece of last Saturday [Anti-Corruption War as a Cliché], to heighten the frantic, well-organised and ongoing smear tactics against the EFCC and the person of its Chief Executive, Nuhu Ribadu. Incontrovertibly, Momodu's opening claim, unsupported by any shred of argument or justification, that "the anti-corruption war has come to a dead-end" is at best a wish rather than a fact that serves the delusion of bringing cold comfort to the dirtiest section of the Nigerian thieving class whose image this article ultimately hopes to burnish. As a word of caution however, the beneficiaries of this image management enterprise will be well served to stick to reality and continue their desperate shopping run for a better apologist because this is indeed a poor...

Chief James Ibori thinking of how to escape from the Metropolitan Police and the EFCC. Court Restrains EFCC From Arresting Ibori Vanguard (Lagos) NEWS 11 October 2007 Posted to the web 11 October 2007 By Emma Amaize Warri A FEDERAL High Court sitting in Benin has granted an injunction, restraining the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Executive Chairman of the Commission, Attorney-General of the Federation and their agents from arresting or detaining the immediate past governor of Delta State, Chief James Ibori; his deputy, Chief Benjamin Elue; and other former and current political office holders in the state in respect of the EFFC's current investigations into the financial transactions and contracts in the state between 1999 and May 2007. The order is to subsist until the determination of the motion on notice brought against them before the court. The Delta State Government had approached the court following receipt of a letter from the EFCC requesting it to turn ...