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Ahead of the 2027 general elections, the All Progressives Congress, Enugu State chapter has inaugurated its Women Wing and Elders Council of Women to boost the party’s grassroots mobilisation.
Speaking during the inauguration held on Saturday at the Done Event Centre, Minister of Innovation, Science and Technology, Chief Uche Geoffrey Nnaji, charged the women to remain steadfast, to keep faith with the APC and continue to carry the torch of progress that their leaders have handed to them.
Nnaji, who spoke gloriously about the future of APC in Enugu, noted that the inauguration of the APC Women Wing in the state, which is the first state in Nigeria to do that, is a test of their resolve to take the state for the party in 2027.
“The future belongs to those who dare to build it, and you, the women of Enugu APC are already building it with courage and conviction,” said the minister
On Sep 8, 2025, at 3:39 AM, 'Chukwuemeka Okala' via ||NaijaObserver|| <naijao...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM, Kayode Adebayo<kayu...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ignoranti Called Eze Chukwuemeka:Your Igbo brother called Emefiele is the personification of corruption. He is the most corrupt Nigerian in the entire history of Nigeria. He stole billions of Naira and dollars. He owned and lodged stolen billions in 593 bank accounts around the world, making him the most corrupt human being in the world today and winning the Guinness Book of Records. He owned 753 unit estate in Abuja alone and 7 landed properties in Lagos alone. He is charged with $7.8 billion dollar fraud by the EFCC. When your Igbo people steal, they steal everything.
Speaking on Arise Television’s Morning Show on Tuesday, Maduabuchi said the issue of Jonathan’s qualification had already been settled by a competent court in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, and no appeal has been filed against that judgment.
He stated that until the existing judgment is overturned, it remains the valid legal position, adding that anyone attempting to relitigate the matter is “simply abusing the process of the court and is a busy body”.
The senior lawyer explained that the 2018 constitutional amendment — Section 137(3), which limits a person to one further term if they have previously completed another’s tenure — did not exist when Jonathan first took the oath of office in 2010 following the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
Maduabuchi maintained that the law cannot be applied retroactively and that there was no legal restriction preventing Jonathan from seeking two full terms as President under the constitutional provisions in effect at the time.
He said: “Let me start by saying that that suit in the Federal High Court Abuja is an abuse of court process.
An abuse of court process is when you want to relitigate a case or an issue that has already been settled by a court of competent jurisdiction.
“The issue of the qualification or non-qualification of Dr Goodluck Jonathan have been settled by the court in Yenagoa. Nobody has taken that issue on appeal. And until that judgment is set aside, it remains what the law is, and anybody who decides that he wants to take it to a court of coordinate jurisdiction is simply abusing the process of the court and is a busy body.
“But what controls a given situation is the position of the law when the act in the issue was done. What was the position of the law in 2011?
When Dr Goodluck Ebele Jonathan took the oath of office as President of Nigeria, what was the position of the law? Was Section 1373 part of our laws then? You already said the law came into effect in 2018.
“So when Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was taking the oath of office to complete the tenure of Yar’Adua there was no statutory limitations in existence then which could inhibit him from running his constitutionally guaranteed two terms.
“There was no inhibition. When in 2018 you brought in the amendment of 1373, did Goodluck Ebele Jonathan take an oath as president after the amendment?”
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by Caroline Dutot | Jun 22, 2020 | Insights | 0 comments

Nigeria, the most populated county in Africa, was ruled by President General Mohammed Abacha from 1993 to 1998. During that time, he stole hundreds of millions of dollars of Nigerian public money with help from his second son, Mohammed Sani Abacha, and their associate Abubakar Atiku Bagudu. They stole this money through a number of elaborate schemes and in 2003 Bagudu was arrested to be extradited from the USA. Matthew Jowitt, former Advocate and Founding member of Ardent Chambers (and now Solicitor General) acted in the Jersey proceedings, which resulted in the eventual return of the funds to Nigeria in 2020.
How to steal $300million
Scheme one – Security Votes Fraud
The trio systematically embezzled public funds from the Central Bank of Nigeria. They used their high power and public roles, to convince the bank that this was necessary for the national security of the country to pay large chunks of money away. The trio then kept this money for themselves.
Scheme two – Debt Buy-Back Fraud
General Abacha made it a requirement for Nigeria to repurchase its own national debt for more than double what the country would have paid on the open market. He then skimmed the difference off the top, making a healthy profit for himself and his associates.
The trio then laundered the stolen money through the USA into an account held in Jersey. They used relatively sophisticated, commercial contracts to make the money look legitimate under a company called Doraville.
How to get caught
In 1998 President Abacha died in a plane crash and this marked the beginning of the end for the trio’s elaborate thefts. By September 1999, the Attorney General of Nigeria had uncovered their schemes and appointed Swiss lawyers. These lawyers were granted special powers to act on the country’s behalf and recover the stolen funds that had been hidden around the world.
In 2003 General Abacha’s associate, Bagudu, was arrested in the USA and faced extradition to Jersey. He agreed to return more than $163 million of the company’s assets to the Nigerian government; an amount he claimed represented his share. The rest of the money belonged to General Abacha’s son.
In return for his half of the money, Jersey withdrew the extradition request and Bagudu was returned to Nigeria for possible prosecution in that country. To date he hasn’t faced trial in Nigeria.
The remaining balance of the Doraville funds, c$300 million, have now been confiscated in accordance with Jersey’s civil asset recovery legislation that allows the seizure and forfeiture of the proceeds of crime without the need for a criminal conviction.
On Monday, 3 February 2020, the Government of Jersey, the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Government of the United States of America entered into an Asset Recovery Agreement to repatriate these funds, more than US$300 million, to Nigeria.
This case proves that the confiscation of assets even in complex and elaborate cases is possible. International co-operation has reached a new level that makes it harder for the proceeds of corruption to be hidden, no matter what country the crime has taken place in or where the assets end up. We can expect more asset recovery action like this in the future.
https://www.ardentchambers.com/how-to-steal-300-millionand-not-get-away-with-it/