Wikileaks On Nigeria: Shell's Ann Pickard Says Turai, Tanimu and NNPC GMD Yar'adua Were Collecting Bribes From Oil Lifting Contracts

Our Tunisian brothers & sisters, and now our Egyptian brothers and sisters are fighting as i write to free themselves from enslavement from an oligarchy that has had its boot on their collective necks for over THIRTY YEARS. I commend them, they have made a DECISION that there are THINGS worth DYING for, such as their freedom & that of their loved ones. Hopefully this is the YEAR that my beloved Nigeria will FINALLY resolve that ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. I follow the NASS carefully, i think they sense that THE JIG IS UP for this USELESS, TREACHEROUS government. Listen to how they try to speak of their constituents now. They werent thinking of their constituents when they codified that IMMORAL salary to themselves. I laugh at all this people. When they are looting, they think NO ONE will come after them AFTER THE LOOTING IS DONE. They sell their fellow citizens short.... WE WILL COME AFTER U, WE WILL MAKE U VOMMIT THAT MONEY IF WE HAVE TO TORTURE U & UR FAMILY. Have u ever heard the addage: nothing is free in this world,YEAH IT IS TRUE. DONT WORRY JUST LIKE YOU KNOW THAT THE SUN SHALL RISE TOMMORROW MORNING, IT IS ALSO THE SAME WITH THE LOOTERS, and their RECKONING. the only way to escape is to move to a foreign country where OUR ARM cant reach u. Death to all enemies of the Republic!!

Buhari n Ribadu, are they generals? Abeg keep quiet.

Set urself ablaze and then we'll knw that u r serious and ready for a revolution. Am so angry n frustrated but i cant set myself ablaze; i dont have the liva to do that. Do u? i bet u that if u do, u'll jst die unnoticed. NO B NAIJA WE DEY? Forgive my attitude.

I hope these Nigerians in high places are human? Do they think at all? If they think, do they think deep? And what are we doing as Nigeria to legislatively block all these corruption avenues! Yet, we vote Ole, Jaguda, Barawo, Eri etc, term in term out and we smile with one another and pretend that things are ok, they go to places of worship with you and you smile with them and pretend everything is ok? When are we to boldly rise against these workers of wickedness? When! HYPOCRISY AND SYCOPHANCY!!! TIMIDITY AND STUPIDITY!!! HA! NAIJA!!!

@FOLAKE ORITSEJETEMENU OLANREWAJU
I agree with you.

What is good for the goose is also good for the Gander!

If Bode George, Cecilia Ibru and Alams WERE/are imprisoned and Ibori (all Southerners)is awaiting being extradited to England to possibly Brixton Prison, whilst the likes of Tanimu and his cohort Northern Princes/Princesses and Tiv Stalwarts like Ando are still strutting around like Peacocks, then there is something seriously flawed about Nigeria's Justice System.

I do not wish to bring regionalism to this issue of Corruption and those caught by the 'short arm' of Nigerian Justice system, this is just an inescapable fact that anyone can observe.

Who will bell the cat of Corruption in Northern Nigeria?

Definitely not with the help of Jonathan or of PDP.

first of all i want to assure turai,abubakar yar adua,kurmi,aondoakaa that they will not escape justice no matter how long it takes.its the ill-gotten wealth,she and ibb has been using 2 finance the genocide in jos.Beware what you seek in jos,you will not get,it will lead to your destruction.secondly,buhari doesnt need 2 still money before he becomes corrupt.he inducted Nigeria into the org.of islamic countries,he is a muslim,so was his deputy during his draconian years in power.when he was PTF chairman 98% of contract went to muslim hausa/fulani business men.95% of federal projects(roads,schools,schoolarships abroad,health projects n so many others)where restricted 2 the north.in take into the military was dominated by the hausa/fulani muslims.surely there is a trend in these behaviours.THIS IS CORRUPTION!.his comments in the 2003 poll that muslims should vote for muslims,calls his character to question.lastly i remember as children he wished us well as future leaders of this country,but almost 30 years later,he still wants 2 be president.Haba muhammadu! Wont you inspire others?

Pls is salary increment the only ans. 1ce our reserves are dwindled or rather kapiish, we r doomed. GEJ no offenc guys is a big BUFFOON. Ask any critical tinking Bayelsan.

When all of you were praising Yaradua then and I asked, what are his achievements? Somebody who said Nigeria will be sold into the evil hand of deregulation, the sixth oil producer in the world, have you not seen the handwriting on the wall? The commander and chief of the armed forces of Nigeria who said the Cabal will not allow us to enjoy the oil and he could not do anything about it, Don't you sense then that he is one of the Cabal. Continue to follow your leader like mumu,malu. I ask some of the youth, who are you casting your vote for? Jonathan they replied. Why? I just like him, he is gentle. Can you see ode. A president with no meaningful achievement for 9 month but promises and rhetorics. We are not ready yet, we do not know our left from right. "BI ISE KO BA TII KARI, KII SEE KO."

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SAHARA REPORTERS CALL FOR A REVOLUTION IN NIGERIA

The worst kind of enemy is one that has no respect for you or your abilities. Shell's Pickard apparently doesn't think much of Nigerians. She seems confident that they will continue to make fools of us for generations to come. In other Wikileaks revelations, Ann Pickard herself admitted that Shell has moles in every government ministry and knows of every major political activity in the country. They know who to bribe, who to intimidate and probably who to eliminate. I don't know when we as a nation will wake up, put our feet on the ground and start taking control of our God-given resources.

GUYS I DONT WANT TO KNOW WHO YOU ARE, WAT TRIBE YOU ARE, WAT U HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT WE NEED REVOLUTION AND WE HAVE TO START IT TOGETHER LET US TALK LESS AND START ACTING NOW.

I appreciate the condolences over the mails,phone calls from you my friends,well wishes and co columnists alike.

I am consoled by your show of love!

My mother(Priscillia Akoko -Nee Obhkhan)who died at 57 was a noble creature.Even as one of the most caring mothers she was tough when it matters most,to secure her values,rights and lay fear to rest.

Until her death, she was in Opoji in Edo state having retired home with my father in 1983 upon my father's voluntary exit from the Nigeria Police force.She lost her husband(my father) in 2009 after a brief illness.

I will continue to miss her and remember her last words to me-''my son you will also have a child that will care for you''

Although no words can really help to ease the loss we bear now your prayers will be sufficient especially as we ask for His grace to carry on.

Thank you.

Akoko Macaulay

first of all i wuld like to make a point of correction 2 one of the commentators here Steve Omoragbon.Buhari as alleged by not only him but by many christians did not try to islamise nigeria,it hurts me as a muslim that any utterance or action a muslim does is given a meaning by christians 2 which i dont know why?2 me that is why nigeria will neva move forward.Many muslims live with christians and in peace there is no compulsion in religion that was the preaching of our prophet may be peace be upon him.The Nuhu u are also talkin abt is a muslim wat do u say abt him? So pls chew ur words b4 u throw them not 4 fear but 4 peace to reign.Buhari every Nigerian knows is the most credible candidate amongst all the contestants no doubt abt that and Nuhu in Politics compared 2 buhari is like a baby in his pram,Nuhu can neva disrespect Buhari.If today Nuhu becomes the president he wuldnt mind kalin Buhari 2 work with him.We should try and vote 4 ppl that we know wil work 4 the progress of this country and its ppl but if we continue 2 bring sentiments we wil still remain the same.Turai and her cohorts are not the only corrupt ones even those presently in power are not clean. i pray 4 a good leader.

the reality is- one thing we should know is dat coruption is capitalism n capitalism is coruption, d 2 cannot b seperate by each other.

Oh God, for the foreseeable future, give us Mallam Ribadu to help us clear the mess and drags derailing our progress. GEJ might be a good man. He lack the liver to make change in the country.
If Buhari feel for the suffering Nigerians, he should please give way to Ribadu. After-all he tried unsuccessfully in the past to be Nigeria president and this time around will also not be difference. His regime as a military leader was made popular those days by the late Brig. Tunde Idiagbon and certainly not due to his vision of an Islamic state.

Pls u my people u talk to much and no action from all corners of nija. It is not a case of if u cant beat them join but the situation is bad already u can not repair the damage now. Too much talking no action no result so pls better ur life.

Let's get serious people. Aren't some of you tired of playing the ethnic card and blame games?

Even with the enormity of the issue, some people still want to pit one tribe against the other. Corruption in Nigeria has no ethnic group. It's found in the North and in the south south, in the east as well as in the west.

At the end, we all suffer while a few bastards like Aondoakaa and Turai laugh off with billions.

Universities are shut down, roads are destroyed, hospitals turned to death camps, and youths are unemployed or turned to criminals and all the while, our brothers and cousins in govt and the National assemblies plunder our money with reckless abandon.

Everywhere you turn, you see educated Nigerians abroad cleaning streets or trains to survive while at the same time our "elders" request bribes even to lift their pen!

In the north the rich prevent the rest from getting education so they can rule over them (Imagine all the qualifications that elitist Barkindo has). In the South, even with education we are all cowards.

We all suffer. We all need to change this status quo of corruption.

When I read about the atrocities committed by our past leaders I feel like going the way of "JERRY RAWLINGS" of Ghana.
What pains me most is the over-bearing power and affulence of the so called "FIRST LADIES".
By the way are they supposed to meddle in the affairs of their husbands(NB. Mrs GEJ is not excluded pls she is equally power drunk and guilty)

My question is what has EFCC done so far? Farida pls take note. I can't see where in our constitution first ladies have immunity from prosecution

Nigerians are watching

Peter: Surulere, Lagos

Can someone remember in what books of Aliyu Tilde were the Yaraduas, in all fairness? The issue is not that of regional apology. I Condemn corruption like any other Nigerian. But we have failed to be pragmatic enough in fighting it. That is the challenge. Let is domaway with sentiments and confront it head on. If Goodluck will do just that, I will write 100 essays in his praise. Please let him bring everybody to book. We, Nigerians, will support him. However, as we discuss here, only God knows what cables are sent to Washington regarding the corruption going in presently and we will never know about it until another weakileaks publishes it. Then we will say Jonathan too is like Obj, yaradua, ibb, etc. Lament, lament, lament...

Nigeria's last opportunity to sanitize and insulate itself from corruption was during the tenure of Buhari and Idiagbo. Unfortunately, their government was overthrown and replaced with one that legalized and institutionalized corruption. This recent revelation is another opportunity for Nigeria to jail all the animals involved, and underscore the nation's commitment to fight this systemic disease . President Jonathan should seize the opportunity, no matter the danger, and no matter the cost. Our ears and eyes are open, and we are watching.

I think these people need to be brought up on some charges...

I remember Turai led a Nigeria delegate to the IAEA meeting in Austria sometimes in 2009. This was my comment then :

Umaru: Turai dear, welcome back. How was your presentation ? You must now have a solution to Nigeria's energy problems.

Turai : Thanks dear, everybody was impressed with my presentation -they were speechless !!!! They gave me many samples, this one here is jacquard, that blue one is battik, that glossy red one is the latest lace fabric in Vienna, similar to what we wore at Yuguda's wedding. Call Dikko and tell him my containers are arriving next week.

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The Financial Times of London reports that major investors are snubbing Nigeria’s Euro bond which debuts today.

According to the report, investors are concerned at the way funds in the Excess Crude Account have been utilised. ‘’ Mounting concern about a huge outflow of money from Nigeria’s “rainy day” oil fund has prompted some big investors to shun the country’s debut international bond issue on Friday’’, says the paper.

Although Nigerian officials have said there is a lot of interest in the $500m bond issue, the Financial Times says ‘’ several major funds have told the Financial Times they are not interested in the deal because of Nigeria’s deteriorating fiscal situation and worries about how President Goodluck Jonathan’s government has run the excess crude account, designed to store up windfall oil revenues.’’

The excess crude account was set up during the tenure of the former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. According to the Financial Times report, ‘’ at that time there was $20bn in the fund. But as recently as last September there was less than $400m, according to public disclosures, which showed billions flowing out of the account last year.’’

According to Financial Times calculations, ‘’ more than $30bn of revenues – calculated on the difference between the budgeted and market price of oil – has flowed out of the account, according to donor and government officials. The funds went partly in regular payments to state governors over which there was little subsequent oversight, and partly in federal spending on infrastructure. ‘’

The Financial times quotes Antoon de Kler of South African based investec as saying“ the fact they have run down the excess crude account is very worrying,“ “it is unclear where the money is going”. “Why does a country that relies for 90 per cent of its income on oil, which has seen a big rise in price, needs to run down its foreign exchange reserves? For these reasons we are not buying the bond.”

And according to the Financial Times, he wasn’t the only one that expressed these concerns. ‘’ Other big international investment funds, which invest in Africa, also told the FT they would not participate in the sale. Some Nigerian politicians and officials have questioned why foreign reserves have not risen, and the excess crude account did not grow during the past year of rising oil prices.’’

$16 billion is what Nigeria is believed to have earned in ‘’ windfall revenues in 2010,’’ These figures according to the Financial Times were based on information from technocrats working within Nigeria’s administration and the calculations are ‘‘ based on production of 750m barrels of oil with average oil prices $21 higher than the $60 budgeted.’’

Nigeria’s finance Minister , Olusegun Aganga, told the FT that in addition to some of this money going to the country’s Joint venture partners, the country ‘‘ spent heavily on oil production last year and on clearing arrears to oil companies’’ adding that ‘‘ the government had also partly financed the budget deficit out of the excess crude account to reduce domestic borrowing.’’

NEXT’s efforts to get through to Mr. Aganga for his reaction to the Financial Times story have so far been unsuccessful although, we will keep trying.

SOBs. May you all rot in hell. May your generations unborn suffer for the level of poverty you inflicted on Nigerians.

Espionage!!!

Wikileak 'Pickard answered that there is little intellectual capital to plan and execute a coup and Shell sees little potential for one.' does it by extension, include Buhari and Ribadu?

@The Watcher read your comments again and rephrase.

I wonder what Aliyu Tilde and the other apologists of the Northern oligarchy will say about this revealation. it is not about Jonathan, not at all. It is about the injustice towards the Niger delta. Agboola Gambari and the rest of them who feel we are inferior to them may have something to tell the world. If a man/woman holds the Islamic rosary round the clock and is unable to tell the truth or follow the tenets of the Prophet ( peace be upon him) then they are doomed. Where is Taminu and the rest of the thieving gang? We knew all along the reasons for wanting a dead man to continue to rule from the grave. We nowknow why thing called Andoaakaa advocated for off shore presidency. Who wil call Andoaakaa to order, prosecute him and put him in jail for life? I am sure these people will walk with their loot. We may as well ask for Ibori to be released. What we need to do is the Tunisia experiment. I am deeply saddened by this revealation, but am not surprised.

As usual, we are missing the point. This is why Pickard can say that the Nigerian Army has no intellectual capital. And I daresay that this goes for most Nigerian private and public institutions including our universities, unfortunately.

What Pickard has painted is a Nigerian State where the laws are subsumed by the crass rush for lucre by elected representatives. It does not mean that unelected people are better, it just means they have not had the opportunity. This corruption has no class, no ethnic group, no gender, no region, no political party. Corruption has, is and seems prepared to continue to ravage our country. The average Nigerian has zero compulsion in using his position to enrich self and family and oppress everyone else! It is the law of the jungle that prevails.

We can bristle at Pickard but the fact remains that Pickard did not say anything we don't already know or suspect. So, fellow Nigerians, the issue is where do we go from here? How do we address these issues that have continued to hold us back? Unfortunately, I don't know the answer. And that is depressing.