The miasma of corruption & nefariousness in Government !

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"I have always argued the corner that both the Southern and Northern ruling class/elite in Nigeria are a classic case of "to pull devil, pull baker".

Each of the pair is as bad and big a rogue as the other. It is now clear to all and sundry that no matter what part of the country produces a leader, the leader is part of the rotten system. A bad tree will always produce rotten fruits, no matter what part of the tree you care to pick your fruits from.

Nigeria has always been found wanting in radical disciplined visionary leadership, and no society can produce effective leadership when both citizenry and politicians/business men/religious leaders are rotten to the core. Any leadership is as good or as a bad as its people. A leadership will always reflect the predisposition of the people.

'No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians' - Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala speaks with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS

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Minister for Finance and Coordinator of the Economy Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was a guest on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS programme on Sunday where she acknowledged that there was corruption in Nigeria but said that the fight against corruption must involve every Nigerian...

"No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it. In our country, we need to, coupled with – by all means pursue those who are corrupt, punish them, you know, make sure there’s no impunity.  But that has to be coupled with something which doesn’t get as much attention, which is building institutions.  It’s unglamorous; it’s work that takes time, but we have to do it.  We have to put it in place.” she said.

The Minister was also taken up by the presenter on Sanusi's suspension. He a

Corruption worsened under OBJ–Bakare

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Convener of Save Nigeria Group, Pastor Tunde Bakare, on Wednesday said former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration raised the bar of corruption in the country, notwithstanding the ex-President’s “supposed achievements” in office.  Bakare spoke in Lagos as the guest lecturer at the 10th Chief Gani Fawehinmi Annual Lecture/Symposium, organised by the Ikeja Branch of the Nigerian Bar Association.  The event, with the theme, ‘Nigeria at centenary: A nation still in bondage?,’ was chaired by former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami (retd.).

''$49.8 billion is missing and Nigerians sit back and do NOTHING.

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 Am I surprised? NO! Not at all. This isn't the first time billions of dollars have been stolen from our national coffers by our so called leaders. It has been happening since the so called independence - when the face of colonialism changed - Fela Kuti and many others have mentioned about this and brought it up for us all to know, learn from and act accordingly, but time and again what have we done?
NOTHING!

Ex-President Obasanjo got a strong message for Pres. Jonathan, Accuses Him Of Lying, Destroying Nigeria And Promoting Corruption.

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An apparently angry and frustrated ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo has written what clearly competes as one of the most acerbic letters in modern history to President Goodluck Jonathan, accusing him of ineptitude and of taking actions calculated at destroying Nigeria.

“Nigeria is bleeding and the hemorrhage must be stopped,” Mr. Obasanjo said in the 18-page letter dated December 2, 2013 and exclusively obtained by PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday.

Crookedness : Bullet-proof corruption

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Aviation Minister, Ms. Stella Oduah

IT was bound to come to this. The moment our “zero tolerance for corruption” president decided to fight tooth and nail against the public declaration of his assets, the moment he chose to declare instead “I don’t give a damn!” about any such nonsense as probity and leading by example, you knew the day was just around the corner when a ministercould import bullet-proof luxury cars as personal gifts to herself.

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Anti-Corruption Network gives Minister Of Aviation 3 days Ultimatum To Resign

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An anti-corruption watchdog led by a former legislator, Dino Melaye, has given Nigeria's Minister of Aviation, Stella Oduah 72 hours to resign from office.

The ultimatum follows revelations by SaharaReporters that she arm-twisted a cash-strapped agency in the aviation ministry to purchase two armored BMW 760 Li cars at highly inflated prices.

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"Nigerians encourage corruption" ,says President Goodluck .E Jonathan ( Do you agree ?)

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President Goodluck Jonathan  has lamented  that in spite of institutional reforms aimed at fighting corrupt practices, Nigerians, through their actions encourage graft.

He also said both the  public and private sectors were involved in corruption but stated that he would not give out their names “so that  I won’t be attacked.”

The President  spoke while declaring open the 54th annual conference of the Nigerian Economic Society in Abuja on Tuesday.

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Why GEJ cannot fight corruption

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“When the head is rotten, it affects the whole body”

— A popular African proverb

At the inception of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration in 2011, Nigeria’s first minority president, the man whom much hope had been invested to clean the Aegean Stable shocked the entire nation. It was in the answer he gave to what had seemed to be an innocuous question that had left Nigerian bewildered. Jonathan had been asked why he had not deemed it fit to set a personal example in transparency by declaring his assets. The interviewer sought to know why he had not fulfilled the constitutional obligation. He wanted the President to tell Nigerians when he would submit his assets to public scrutiny as an example to other public officials.

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Corruption of Power : North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, publically executes ex-girlfriend

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On August 8th, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un was in the audience to applaud his ex-girlfriend Hyon Song- wol (right), a singer with the Unhasu National Orchestra. 9 days later a group of artists were arrested for allegedly making a sex tape. His ex was one of them. They were publicly executed by firing squad on August 20th, while their families were condemned to a labor camp.

From Asia News

The North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un ordered the public execution of his ex-girlfriend Hyon Song- wol, accused of 'pornography' with a group of artists from the National Orchestra of Unhasu, which his current wife Ri Sol -ju also once belonged to. The arrest took place on August 17, the execution took place in public three days later. According to the indictment the women filmed themselves having sex and then sold the videos in China. Some South Korean sources claim that there were many Christians among those sentenced to death who had a Bible at home, a "crime" that you can pay for with your life or imprisonment in a state gulag in North Korea.

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Jonathan: US report on Nigeria corruption ‘over amplified’

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Ayo Oluokun/Abuja
President Goodluck Jonathan has described claims that his administration is dogged by massive corruption in a report by the United States Government as untrue as “over-amplified’, though he agree that there are ‘issues of corruption in the country’.
Speaking at the signing ceremony of power reforms transactions held at the Banquet Hall of Presidential Villa on Monday, the President said the report submitted to the U.S. Congress by the Secretary of State John Kerry failed to recognize the fact that his administration has done a lot to curtail corrupt activities as shown by the way government has been conducting its business.

Impunity, not corruption is Nigeria`s biggest problem – Sanusi

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He noted that corruption was a universal problem, but added that other countries were able to attain development because they had adequate punitive structures in place.

The  theme of the colloquium, organised to mark the 61^st birthday of Tinubu was “Beyond Mergers: A National Movement for Change”.

According to him, corruption is a big issue in the country today as in other parts of the world like Russia, China and others; but why are they eradicating poverty and Nigeria isn’t?

“It is not just corruption. It is the kind of failed interventions that are procured with the proceeds of corruption.

THREAT: US threatens to cut off aid to Nigeria over corruption issues, Condemned the pardon

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The Obama administration on Friday threatened to cut off aid to Nigeria or even sanction the African country after the government of President Goodluck Jonathan pardoned a former governor accused of corruption.

“The United States government is deeply disappointed over the recent pardons of corrupt officials by the Nigerian government,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. “We see this as a setback for the fight against corruption and also for our ability to play the strong role we’ve played in supporting rule of law and legal institution building in Nigeria, which is very important for the future of the country, obviously.”

PATIENCE JONATHAN: GREED, CORRUPTION AND UNBRIDLED AMBITION

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Why spend five hundred million naira on a thanksgiving party? Why allocate 4 billion naira to a white elephant project in Abuja. Why lobby, and then accept the Permanent Secretary position in the Bayelsa State civil service when you knew you were not qualified for such an appointment? Why engage in a public quarrel with your predecessor over a public land deal in Abuja? Why lie to the nation about your medical condition and secret treatments overseas. Why the bombastic statements, and the supercilious attitude? What’s the immoderations that have come to define you?” The questions are almost endless. But this has been the ways of Patience Faka -- the wife of President Goodluck Jonathan.  

Pope quit over corruption, gay sex scandals – Report

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Pope Benedict XVI resigned after an internal investigation informed him about a web of blackmail, corruption and gay sex in theVatican, Italian media reports say.

A team of three cardinals were asked by Benedict to verify allegations of financial impropriety, cronyism and corruption exposed in the so-called VatiLeaks affair.

In December, they handed the pontiff a large portfolio of papers which was “an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish” inside the Holy See, La Repubblica said.

Catholic Bishops Blast Jonathan, Governors Over Massive Corruption, Rights Abuses

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Catholic Bishops of Nigeria The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) on Friday in Abuja expressed worry over the lack of accountability and transparency at all levels of government in Nigeria, saying the situation is responsible for the massive poverty and insecurity in the country.

The bishops said by failing to uphold probity in the deployment of public resources, President Goodluck Jonathan, state governors and other public office holders should be regarded as human rights abusers. This is contained in a communiqué signed by Arch-Bishop Ignatius Kaigama, President of CBCN at the end of the first plenary conference titled "Faith and the Dignity of the Human Person". The communique stated that the lack of transparency and accountability were responsible for the high level of poverty and security threats in the country.

FG files corruption charges against Farouk Lawan over Otedola bribe

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The Attorney-General of the Federation has finally filed charges against Farouk Lawan and Mr. Emenalo Boniface for allegedly collecting bribe from Femi Otedola. The case has been assigned to Justice M.N. Oniyangi of the FCT High Court.

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Jonathan: Our Greatest Challenge Is Our Attitutude Not Corruption

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President Goodluck Jonathan claimed today that Nigeria’s biggest challenge to good governance is not corruption, but the attitude of Nigerians. Jonathan submitted this theory today in Yenagoa during a flowery tribute that he paid his former national security adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi, at Azazi’s burial.

FG Skips Planned Refinery Projects - Jonathan Must Tackle Fuel Subsidy Corruption–Labour

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Eleven months after promising to build three new refineries for the country, the Federal Government may have dumped the plan. Saturday PUNCH investigations showed that the FG may have dropped the idea because of the unresolved issue of deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum industry.
This development came to the fore as organised labour expressed surprise at President Goodluck Jonathan’s N161bn supplementary budget on fuel subsidy for 2012.

North Demands Death Penalty For Corruption

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Ahead of Thursday’s zonal constitutional conferences, foremost northern political group, the Arewa Consultative Forum, has recommended capital punishment for corruption. At present, China is the only notable country where corruption attracts capital punishment.In its proposal submitted to the National Assembly, a copy of which was obtained by one our correspondents in Kaduna on Tuesday, the ACF rued the destructive impact of corruption on the country and said that anybody found guilty of corruption should be killed.