Mazi Nnamdi Kanu teaching Nigerian judges the law.

[Abraham Madu]

You don't know the law. James Omotosho show me the law.

Superior ability must point the way and mediocre must follow!

Ntị ọdị kwa?

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.

[Abraham Madu]

[Dr Ola Kassim]

Abraham:

Very funny!

I think if I were to choose between the teacher and the students

in this case, I would choose to be one of the students--for the

simple reason that they would be going home to be with members

of their family. 

Unfortunately for this teacher, he has no prospect of going back

home to be with his wife and growing children any time soon.

Bye,

Ola

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Dr Kassim 

Sadly, his wife is known to me; she's an alumna of your alma mater. It's sad that a lady like her married a very useless rabble-rouser like Nnamdi Kanu.

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Abraham:

Very funny!

I think if I were to choose between the teacher and the students

in this case, I would choose to be one of the students--for the

simple reason that they would be going home to be with members

of their family. 

Unfortunately for this teacher, he has no prospect of going back

home to be with his wife and growing children any time soon.

Bye,

Ola

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Superior ability must point the way and mediocre must follow!

Ntị ọdị kwa?

Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

Ụmụ nne Abrahamụọgụ Aṅụsịobi Madụ.

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[Dr Ola Kassim]

Femi:

As I have written several times before, Nnamdi Kanu's saga is a sad one.

He has wasted most of his adult life pursuing a dream, however important

it is to him and millions of others who share his heritage employing a method

that is unlikely to yield the desired results.

Far too many prominent Nigerians of Igbo descent have advised Nnamdi

Kanu to pursue his dream of a Republic of Biafra using peaceful means

including entering politics which with his name recognition would foster acceptance

by his constituency to be elected as a member of the HOR  or even as a Senator.

He could have used this route to promote the idea of secession of the SE from

the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

He could have joined with others to campaign for a referendum which if supported

by even just 60% of the Igbo might be sufficient for bringing the matter up in the

HOR or at the Senate.

He rejected all of these entreaties!

He believes he could build a military force that would be strong enough to defeat

the Nigerian armed forces in a civil war--similar to the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70) but 

with the opposite result.

I think Nnamdi Kanu suffers from a Personality Disorder which seriously affects his judgement.

He suffers from a Messianic complex and delusion in which he considers himself as a chosen Messiah  

that would deliver his people from the brutal rulers of the Nigerian 'Zoo' in the same manner

that Moses deliver the Jews from their sufferings under the Pharaoh of Egypt.

It is apparent that he does not have a full  awareness about the interethnic relationships within

the former Eastern of Nigeria and Nigeria as a whole. His idea of a Republic of Biafra that includes

the entire former eastern region of Nigeria and extends westward to Edo state and northwards

to the Middle Belt would have been an insurmountable obstacle. o overcome.

Any time I am in Nigeria, I always wonder what percentage of the Igbo who live and work

and own properties and businesses in other regions of Nigeria would return to the SE

even if Nnamdi Kanu  or any other secessionist from the SE

is successful (hopefully) through peaceful means and a Republic of Biafra is created.

Would the Igbo who were born in Lagos and other regions of Nigeria 3 or 4 generations ago have

a place to call home in the SE that they could return to and be welcome?

Would Nigerians of mixed descent and those of other ethnic origins be allowed to stay and

become citizens of the Republic of Biafra if they chose to remain within the boundaries of

new country?

I ask these questions because I am inclined to believe that the answers either way are impossible

to achieve--regardless of whether the secessionist enclave is in the SE, the SW or any from any other

zone in Nigeria. These reasons and others are what compels me to believe that Nigeria is too complex

and to intertwined to break up into multiple independent nations.

Yet here we are--a young man in his 40s has decided to waste most of his life in solitary confinement

for the sake mirage he sees as the future of his people!

I truly free sorry for him. I hope his wife, my fellow alumnus of UI, would have sufficient

emotional capacity and the resources she needs to raise their young kids to become

productive human beings anywhere in the world they chose to work and live in.

They could migrate to Canada and see how human beings from all over the world regardless

of their ethnic origins could live together in peace. We would welcome the Nnamdi Kanu family

with open arms if they chose to do so.

Bye,

Ola

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[Nebukadineze Adiele]

Olola,

Try to give some of us credit sometimes. The only thing you wrote below that Nebu has not written so many times is that Kanu "believes he could build a military force that would be strong enough to defeat the Nigerian armed forces in a civil war--similar to the Nigerian Civil War (1967-70)". Nnamdi Kanu has no such belief, that was one of the reasons that I dismissed his Biafra pursuit. Kanu has always professed his Biafra as emanating through peaceful protests, something that no rational adult would believe, especially in light of the failure of the first Biafra. For over two decades, I have been stating that Biafra can only come to fruition through waging a war against Nigeria and prevailing or if multiple sections of Nigeria mount secessionist declarations at the same time. 

Apart from attaching the word "indigenous" to their name, which makes them seem unenlightened, my next reason for seeing them as not serious was their appeal to peaceful movement and appeal to a potential international community's sympathizing with them in the event that the FGN applied drastic measures against them. The Biafran leadership of 1967 hoped that the world would not standby and watch Nigeria annihilate Igbos through the barrels of the gun and hunger, yet that was what happened. I was a child in Biafra, I still remember the extreme hunger that visited us and the frequency of our playmates' hourly/daily deaths, so embarking on another Biafra without outmatching Nigeria in arms and soldiers can only make sense to youngsters who did not witness Biafra. Based on these factors, it is not surprising that 99.9% of IPOB members and followers are youngsters born after Biafra. 

By no means does the above mean that Igbos, in general, would object to an exiting of Nigeria that would not lead to the sufferings of 1967-1970 and the balkanization of Igbo land, which has led to lots of Igbo sub-ethnicities denying being Igbo and lowering the population of Igbo people of Nigeria. If Igbos could exit Nigeria today, and form their own country encompassing all Igbo sub-ethnicities without Nigeria waging a war against them, or if they would prevail over Nigeria should Nigeria wage a war against them, at least 70% of Igbos would support such an exit. I would exit Nigeria in a jiff just to no longer share a country with cowardly, corrupt, dishonest, and extraconstitutional practitioners like Imperial Wizard and other dumb Nigerians of toady. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

[femi Olajide]

Nebu,

The problem with dumb Igbos like yourself and Kanu is that you always seem to assume what comes after the emergence of your new Biafra nation.

Won't there be dumb Igbos on the new Biafra of tomorrow?

What is stopping Igbo governors from performing now and making Igbo states the cynosure of all eyes in Nigeria?

Who will lead the Igbos in the new Biafra nation? Are they going to be the same leaders now or Biafra will be rudderless until a new crop of sterling leaders are born?

A myriad of factors make a great a nation. Mere declaration of being a nation is not necessarily one of the factors.

When people like you erroneously feel merely becoming a nation state will automatically turn your current political leaders into super-performing leaders, one realizes that your thinking is wishful and not measured or intelligently assessed.

Believers of the Biafra nation are fools, who believe in a fool's paradise. They are fools who fail to take responsibility now to improve and develop the Igbo nation within Nigeria, but blame Nigeria for their woes, yet expect miracle to happen and build the new Biafra nation. Will the new Biafra be populated with brand new Igbos or recalibrated Igbos automatically once Biafra nation is declared.

I believe you guys are as mad as hatters. Insanely put together, both in thought and being!

Regards,

Femi Olajide



Superiorability must point the way and mediocre must follow!

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Ya kpọtụba!

Ya gazie.

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[Gee Kay]

Femi,

When did you join those who insult people anyhow? 

Is Nigeria also taking its toll on you?

GK

[Nebukadineze Adiele]

GK,

You must not know the Ishan thief of Docklands, Femi Olajide, if you didn't know that he has always been a cowardly thoughtless semi-literate punk and a rude impish pirate in the last five years on these forums. Femi Olajide lacks self esteem, so he fakes being Yoruba, just as does his Ukwuani savagery bff of Kayode Adebammuọjọ. This imbecilic Femi Olajide knows nothing about the Igbo, except his paranoid belief that stopping Igbo through jealousy and using the Nigerian state's power is the only way weaklings like him would survive in Nigeria. Femi Olajide is lucky that Igbos have quit the forums and Nebu no longer has time for uneducable urchins of his sort, that is why he insults Igbo the ethnic group -- he was cowardly not like this when Igbos were here in huge numbers and would tear his ignorant ass to pieces if he insulted the Igbo ethnic group. 

Nebukadineze Adiele

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[femi Olajide]

GK,

This reply is for you and not for that idiotic Nebu that has lost all sense of normalcy.

GK, can you confirm what was insulting about my post below? Please, quote the specific insulting sentence or excerpt from my post.

The problem with a lot of Nigerian people like Nebu, Madu et al(and increasingly yourself) on these fora is the ability to take responsibility for their own failure and chart a way to overcome their shortcomings.
They see anyone that is brazen enough to tell them barefaced that they are shirking their responsibilities and embracing ideals that do not exist, rather being realistically inclined, as their enemy.

The stupid Nebu in his response to you below, that is a grown man, not being able to have an adult discussion to argue his position, reminiscing the days when he could have received support from his Igbo compatriots 'who would have torn someone' apart.

Igbos like Nebu are the bane of the hard working decent Igbos all across Nigeria. Once you hit home with them with facts, they retort that others are jealous of Igbos. Jealous of Igbos for what?

I've never yearned to live, work or sojourn in any igboland. It's Igbos that yearn to sojourn in my land and others, to make a livelihood for themselves and their families, yet the fool(s) turn around and have the temerity to say the locals are jealous of them.

Fact must be said to people of Igbo descent like Nebu, name one thing that Igbos have that could that Yorubas or ordinary Nigerians will covet about Igbos?

If Igbos have anything worthy that other Nigerians find covetous, why is Igboland desolate and devoid of sojourners like other non-igboland in Nigeria?

Igbos themselves are running away from the land that is cursed by the deeds of their forefathers, and deeds that the present Igbos are failing to confront and offload as the albatross around their neck.

The problem with Igbos is that the reasonable and moderate Igbos , which I will like to be are in the majority, are afraid to confront the minority despicable ones that are loud and unruly amongst them.

Recently, a former governor(Kalu or something) in one of their accursed states confirmed that over 30,000 Igbos must have died due Nnamdi Kanu's antics, yet in another breath to take the sting out of that assertion claim that he is leading a delegation to negotiate amnesty with the government. What a people?

GK, I do not owe anyone any apologies for my post. If you want to contest any assertion therein, trot them out with facts. My ears are wide open, they are not car doors!

The time is here when fake idiots and liars like Nebu yansh will be opened to the whole world. Instead of proffering solutions they whine and blame others for their own inadequacies. Let them show is why the so-Igbo state cannot excel and show their god-given Biafran endorsement wherever they are now?

Why are their towns and villages desolate and being abandoned for other people's land?

These are pertinent questions.........Let it be answered by those whose jealousy of others have made them abandon their own land.

Capital fools.......dem wan hear word, dem go hear am!

Regards,

Femi Olajide

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[Dr Ola Kassim]

Wikipedia:

Nnamdi Kanu:

Early activism

Kanu began his activism for the freedom of Biafra as a Radio Biafra director and anchor of Biafra awareness under Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who said while in a meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria on 12 June 2014, that he handed over Radio Biafra to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB but Kanu disappointed him.^[21] Radio Biafra however, was established by the defunct Biafran government in 1967 with the aim of championing the Biafran cause. Kanu was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and broadcast to Nigeria from London.^[9] In 2014, he founded IPOB.^[9] On 5 September 2015, Nnamdi Kanu was a guest speaker at the World Igbo Congress which was held in Los Angeles, where he told his audience "we need guns and we need bullets".^[22]

Nebu:

I agree that you have expressed some concerns about Nnamdi Kanu's approach

to actualizing his vision for Biafra.

Even though we can always agree to disagree  on many issues based

on our individual opinions we must not feign such agreement or disagreement

when the facts are presented to us.

The above shows that Nnamdi Kanu's methodology for achieving the

dream of Biafra is not entirely a peaceful one.

His speech in Los Angeles at the WIC annual meeting was on Sep 5, 2015.

He was arrested  at MMI Airport, Lagos  on 24 October 2015.

I think your statement that :

"Kanu has always professed his Biafra as emanating through peaceful protests, 

something that no rational adult would believe, especially in light of the failure 

of the first Biafra."---Nebu

is wrong.

Nnamdi Kanu's fight for Biafra was not solely about peaceful protests. 

To my knowledge, he did not hold any peaceful protests on Nigerian soil.

It is quite possible that he organized or attended peaceful protests for Biafra 

in London, England or elsewhere in the world

 

Bye,

Ola

Nnamdi Okwu Kanu // ^ⓘ (born 25 September 1967)^[5] is a British^[6] political activist known for advocating for the independence of Biafra from Nigeria.^[7] He is the leader and founder of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which he founded in 2012, to restore the defunct State of Biafra which existed in Nigeria's Eastern Region during the Nigerian Civil War.^[8][9]

As the director of a United Kingdom-registered radio station named Radio Biafra, Kanu propagated Biafran separatism.^[10][11] He was arrested on treason charges in Lagos, Nigeria on 14 October 2015 and was detained for more than a year, despite various court orders that ruled for his release. When in court, Kanu appeared regularly wearing a Jewish prayer shawl and head covering. He said in court, that he "believes in Judaism" and considers himself a Jew. He has led his Biafran people to various Jewish prayers and religious observations on different occasions.^[12] On 28 April 2017, Kanu was released from prison on bail.^[3] Nigerian security forces attempted to quash IPOB's armed wing, the Eastern Security Network, which culminated in a low-level conflict in early 2021. Despite the fighting, Kanu maintained that IPOB was interested in a peaceful solution and achieving Biafran independence without violence or harm. In June 2021, he was widely reported to have been allegedly re-arrested by Interpol^[13][14][15] in Kenya and handed over to Nigeria but in April 2024, Interpol denied any involvement in the arrest and consequent rendition to Nigeria.^[16][17]

In 2025, he was sentenced to life imprisonment on terrorism charges.^[18]

Early life

Kanu was born 25 September 1967 in Isiama Afara Ukwu, Umuahia — within the claimed territory of the Republic of Biafra — a few months after it had declared independence from Nigeria. His father, Eze Israel Okwu Kanu (JP),^[19] and his mother, Ugoeze Nnenne Kanu, were Nigerian traditional monarchs.^[20] He attended Library Avenue Primary School and went to Government College Umuahia for his secondary education. He studied at University of Nigeria, Nsukka and moved to the UK before graduating.^[3]

Early activism

Kanu began his activism for the freedom of Biafra as a Radio Biafra director and anchor of Biafra awareness under Ralph Uwazuruike, leader of the Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), who said while in a meeting in Kaduna, Nigeria on 12 June 2014, that he handed over Radio Biafra to Nnamdi Kanu, leader of IPOB but Kanu disappointed him.^[21] Radio Biafra however, was established by the defunct Biafran government in 1967 with the aim of championing the Biafran cause. Kanu was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and broadcast to Nigeria from London.^[9] In 2014, he founded IPOB.^[9] On 5 September 2015, Nnamdi Kanu was a guest speaker at the World Igbo Congress which was held in Los Angeles, where he told his audience "we need guns and we need bullets".^[22]

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[femi Olajide]

DOK,

I've just re-read my posting below in the thread below and I do apologies to everybody for many errors therein.

I didn't have time to proof read and my auto-speller had a mind of its own(coupled with the fact that I find these people irksome).

I will go through it and rejig the various mistakes that I noticed which did not really make my.points too intelligible as I wanted it to be.

Regards,

Femi Olajide

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[Dr Ola Kassim]

Femi:

It's human to err.

I was just happened to tender my apology to Nebu on my piece below.

When re-read my rejoinder to him, I noticed that in his pieacce

that he qualified the statement I objected to about MNK's protests being

peaceful.

I missed the qualifier the first time I read it which is:

"something that no rational adult would believe"

Full sentence below:

"Kanu has always professed his Biafra as emanating through peaceful protests, 

something that no rational adult would believe, especially in light of the failure 

of the first Biafra."---Nebu

Nebu--you have just confirmed what all rational adults including myself believe.

When you argue that MNK could not be guilty of terrorism, you are doing so

based on a possible legal defense for him--No Law; No defense and

hence No Conviction.

The only problem is that the Nigerian court system disagrees with you in this particular case.

Bye,

Ola

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[Chukwuemeka Okala]

 "Kanu was a relatively obscure figure until 2009 when he started Radio Biafra, a station that called for an independent state for the Igbo people and broadcast to Nigeria from London.^[9] In 2014, he founded IPOB.^[9] On 5 September 2015, Nnamdi Kanu was a guest speaker at the World Igbo Congress which was held in Los Angeles, where he told his audience "we need guns and we need bullets".^{[22]"  -  Wikipedia}

^Comment:

^{Absolutely Correct!!}

Emeka Reuben Okala

London, UK

"Faith and reason are not necessarily opposed. But when reason won't take you another step, faith keeps on going because it connects you to God."

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[Kayode Adebayo]

Gbam! Lamidi Kano Dan Fodio lost again. He is now a property of Nigeria. Gbam! No more Hanky Panky or Namby Pampy. Gbam! No escape route in Sokoto Gulag. Gbam!

Hahaha!

Kayode

Alleged Rights Violation: Appeal Court strikes out Nnamdi Kanu’s case against DSS’ DG, AGF

Daily Post 

The Court of Appeal in Abuja has struck out the appeal by terrorism convict, Nnamdi Kanu of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on the grounds that it was without merit and had become academic following his conviction for terrorism offenses by a Federal High Court in a judgment on November 20.

In a judgment on Friday, a three-member panel of the appellate court found that Kanu’s claim that his fundamental rights to human dignity, right to quality health care and religion were being breached by his continued detention in the facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, was no longer feasible since his conviction, life imprisonment sentence and remand in prison custody.

Justice Boloukuromo Moses Ugo, in the lead judgment, held that the substance of the case has become academic because, since Kanu’s lawyer (Maxwell Opara) confirmed at the commencement of proceedings on Friday, that his client was being held in Sokoto prison, the court could no longer order him to be moved to Kuje prison to which he had sought to be relocated from the DSS custody.

Justice Ugo further held that, having earlier exhibited preference for prison custody, the court could no longer grant his prayers since he has been convicted and sent to the prison where he had wanted to be kept.

The judgment was on Kanu’s appeal against the July 3 judgment by Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja (now retired), which earlier dismissed his fundamental rights enforcement suit on the grounds that he failed to prove his case.

Listed as respondents in the appeal were the Director General of the DSS, DSS and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF).

[Kayode Adebayo]

Breaking News: Ola Kassim Busted In Nigerian In Diaspora Organization Billion Naira Land Scam

Words are going round that a purported not-for-profit, Nigerians in Diaspora Organization; NIDO is a smoke screen by highly placed Nigerians and a handful of Nigerians based in Canada and the United States to perpetrate fraud. And officials of NIDO are not doing anything to dispel the doubts about the veracity of the organizations operations. The organization is currently enmeshed in a 64 hecter land deal controversy said to be worth several Billions of Naira in Pyakasa, Abuja, the Nigeria’s capital.

Pyakasa, a suburb of the Nigeria’s Federal capital territory became an historic village after President Bill Clinton of the United States had a stop over there in August 2000.

NIDO’s officials are also alleged to have flagrantly abused donations coming to the organization. Specifically, twelve Virgin Nigeria’s air ticket meant for the youth wing of the organization for last years Diaspora’s conference in Abuja was racketeered.

Going by investigation NIDO may have benefited in land deal worth close to a Billion Naira courtesy of former Federal Capital Territory Minister, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai. The chairman of NIDO, Dr. Ola Kassim, a Nigerian resident in Canada has denied the allegations.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that although NIDO is incorporated as a non-governmental corporation, it is run as a personal thrust of Dr. Kassim, his family members and some close allies. NIDO is registered in Washington DC as a non-for-profit, non-governmental organization yet it operates from the Nigerian embassy in Washington DC as an exclusive concern of Dr. Kassim’s inner circle yet funded entirely by Nigeria’s tax payers.

According to sources, Dr. Kassim entered into negotiation with the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA through an arrangement brokered by the then FCT Minister, Mallam El-Rufai. It was said that he requested for land allocation on behalf of Millions of Nigerians in Diaspora. But in truth 99.9 percent of Nigerians living abroad going by an opinion poll ran by pointblanknews.com earlier in the week have neither heard of NIDO or aware of its operation yet on behalf the unsuspecting Nigerians, a large estate of land was allocated to NIDO at Pyakasa Village rechristened Diaspora Village in Abuja. Also central to the flawed land allocation process at FCDA is one Dr. Ismailah Iro of Abuja Geographical Information System, AGIS.

After the deal was sealed the inner caucus of NIDO sat to share the booty without recourse to or consultation with the millions of Nigerians in Diaspora whom they claim to be representing. NIDO formed a conclave of questionable “fellows” chief amongst the beneficiaries was said to be one London based self-styled Asiwaju, 21 year old Dayo Israel designated by the group as its coordinator for Youths in Diaspora: Ola Kassim, Jerome Akindolire; Gladys Atawo, Samuel Modupe Olupona, Sunday Oladele Olatunji, Sikiru Ayoola Lawal, Yemi Oke, Temidayo Babajide Onabolu, Adeyinka Olanrewaju Oyenubi, Michael Adewole Daramola and Emmanuel Akinwumi, all based in Toronto Canada.

The Abuja land is said to be part of incentives given as incentives to encourage Nigerians living abroad to come and assist in the development of the nation. It was also gathered that if the land had been dispensed with fairness then thousands of Nigerians, especially those who live overseas, would have been able to gain access to land in Abuja at affordable prices. Abuja lands are priced beyond the reach the average Nigerian.

Unfortunately, those who benefited from the NIDO arrangement were said to be members of Dr. Kassim’s immediate family and close friends with the intention of becoming land speculators in Abuja.

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It is further alleged that there is another hidden list of names of Nigerians living abroad, especially in the United States that was used to secure lands that are now being resold exorbitantly. It is said that the Nigerians whose names appear on this secret list actually exist and live in the U.S but they are not aware that their names were used in the said deal. Our Editors made frantic efforts to get the list from NIDO officials during the week but they did not get the cooperation of the organizations officials. The office manager of NIDO, Ms. Stella Onuoha’s reaction was typical “Oga Nigeria is your country; if you like you can go ahead and paint it black.” But Pointblanknews.com was not out to denigrate Nigeria. The intention was to make public officials accountable so that the democracy in the nation would be strengthened.

[Kayode Adebayo]

OLA KASSIM'S LAND HEIST: WHY IRS SHOULD PROBE NIDO

For quite a while now officials of the Nigerians In Diaspora Organization (NIDO), a non profit incorporated in America, have been throwing tar and bricks at each other over one alleged fraud or the other. It is either officials led by Mr. Ola Kassim based in Canada, are allegedly grabbing land in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, or collecting complementary tickets from airlines for trips abroad, all under false pretences. Disgruntled members allege that Kassim and his men do all these deals without the full involvement of the whole house.

We have, in the past, tried to give all sides to the brouhaha opportunities to make their case. It is pertinent to state here that in line with our set objectives, pointblanknews.com would always get to the root of any allegations to ensure probity. But in the past week, some officials and top ranking members of the Kassim flank have indulged in name calling, and pettiness. Instead of respond to allegations of lack of transparency, and fraud, they are busy playing the ostrich. This is tragic because some of them parade impressive credentials.

In our last piece on the Abuja land grabbing deal, some members led by Chioma Ikejiani, made some damaging allegations backed with documents. Instead of address the issues raised, characters like Mr. Bolaji Aluko, and Ola Kassim, are calling members of our editorial team names and even went to the ridiculous extent of giving an empty boast that the Editors do not belong in the scheme of things. The scheme of things could not be anything other than a corrupt, fraudulent and secretive scheme meant to fool Nigerians. Aluko even went as low as questioning why we wrote that he is the son of Nigeria's foremost economist, Prof. Sam Aluko. Kassim and his co-travelers like Aluko have not been able to explain why they have refused to make public names of those who benefited from the land deal despite calls from members. Also shrouded in secrecy is the amount collected by these men. Kassim's figures had been contradictory. His tag-team partner, Howard teacher and soon to be grandfather, Bolaji Aluko, is silent on this.

All these characters could offer are name calling and the phrase of the corrupt in Nigeria “ issue has been resolved ". But if it has been resolved why are Ikejiani, and a Nigeria based attorney, Funke Tejuosho still asking questions.

Kassim, whose role have often reeked of graft, even said all enquiries about the Abuja land scam should be forwarded to the Abuja Geographic information System (AGIS). Ridiculous. He even vowed that no one would get any information from him, unless subpoenaed by the courts. Amazing.

It is against this backdrop that we asking the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), to look into the books of the organization called NIDO. Just like all non-profit, they should be asked to account for every cent collected from members, and how much has been spent. As a matter of fact NIDO's books should be taken apart with a tooth comb. The role of characters like Aluko and others should be ascertained

We also call on the authorities in Canada to look into the activities of NIDO officials in that country.

While we give kudos to Nigerians in Diaspora who have expressed opinions on the issue, we call on others (Nigerians living abroad) to take interest. 

[femi Olajide]

Kayusee,

Very interesting post.

Why don't you forward the dossier to EFCC? I'm sure DOK will not object.

You've been flogging the same story for years without any concrete proof.

Just fold your tent and steal away, no one is interested in your character smearing. Go get a life!

Regards,

Femi Olajide

[Kayode Adebayo]

Nigerian Diaspora Organization In Billion Naira Land Scam ...Top Officials Grab Lands

Sahara Reporters

http://saharareporters.com/2007/07/07/nigerian-diaspora-organization-billion-naira-land-scam-top-officials-grab-lands

[Kayode Adebayo]

Fellow Nigerians: 

Distinguished Thief And Pathological Liar Called Ola Kassim Busted! Hahaha!:

Below is the full list of the 2025 awardees as announced by President Tinubu:

• Kudirat Abiola – CFR
• Shehu Musa Yar’Adua – GCFR
• Prof. Humphrey Nwosu – CON
• Rear Admiral Ndubuisi Kanu – CON
• Alhaji Balarabe Musa – CFR
• Pa Alfred Rewane – CFR
• Bagauda Kaltho – OON
• Chima Ubani – OON
• Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti – CON
• Alao Aka Bashorun – CON
• Chief Frank Kokori – CON
• Emma Ezeazu – OON
• Bamidele Aturu – OON
• Fredrick Fasehun – CON
• Prof. Festus Iyayi – CON
• Dr. John Yima Sen – OON
• Alhaja Sawaba Gambo – CON
• Dr. Edwin Madunagu – CON
• Dr. Alex Ibru – CON
• Chief Bola Ige – CFR
• Pa Reuben Fasoranti – CFR
• Senator Ayo Fasanmi – CON
• Senator Polycarp Nwite – CON
• Dr. Nurudeen Olowopopo – CON
• Prof. Wole Soyinka – GCON
• Prof. Olatunji Dare – CON
• Kunle Ajibade – OON
• Nosa Igiebor – OON
• Dapo Olorunyomi – OON
• Bayo Onanuga – CON
• Ayo Obe – OON
• Dare Babarinsa – CON
• Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah – CON
• Senator Shehu Sani – CON
• Governor Uba Sani – CON
• Barrister Femi Falana, SAN – CON
• Prof. Shafideen Amuwo – CON
• Barrister Luke Aghanenu – OON
• Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi – CON
• Hon. Labaran Maku – OON
• Dr. Tunji Alausa – CON
• Mr Nick Dazang – OON
• Hon Abdul Oroh – OON
• Odia Ofeimun – CON
• Seye Kehinde – OON
• Barrister Felix Morka – CON
• Barrister Ledum Mitee – CON
• Hon. Olawale Osun – CON
• Dr. Amos Akingba – CON
• Prof. Segun Gbadegesin – CON
• Mobolaji Akinyemi – CFR
• Dr. Kayode Shonoiki – CON
• Prof. Julius Ihonvbere – CON
• Prof. Bayo Williams – CON
• Senator Abu Ibrahim – CFR
• Senator Ame Ebute – CFR
• Uncle Sam Amuka Pemu – CON
• Ken Saro-Wiwa – CON
• Saturday Dobee – OON
• Nordu Eawo – OON
• Daniel Gbooko – OON
• Paul Levera – OON
• Felix Nuate – OON
• Baribor Bera – OON
• Barinem Kiobel – OON
• John Kpuine – OON

[femi Olajide]

Kayusee,

Why do you like to make yourself look stupid?
DOK never said it was a national honour.

Think!

Regards,

Femi Olajide