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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by virginchaser(m): 12:02pm On Nov 04, 2022
How?
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by GreyLaw(m): 12:02pm On Nov 04, 2022
Honourable1901:
America wey jagaban dey enter come out na him , atiku dey pay this amount for

Tinubu has not stepped foot on US soil since he came back to Nigeria in the 90s.

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by 36STATES: 12:05pm On Nov 04, 2022
Vote4Obi:
Tinubu and fake news. Anyways, he should know that he isn't any better than Atiku.

Let them continue deceiving themselves Sha. It is left for Nigerians to vote wisely or suffer the consequences!!

I am Obi supporter and don't want Atiku as president.
However, this is an agbado urchins cheap propaganda. Very shameless display of the criminality their agbodo boss is known for, which he has successfully used in caging Lagos state and its treasury.

All these outlandish fake stories used against Jonathan years ago will not work, people are desperate for change and they know Tinubu is going to be worse than Bohari, .. where MC Olomo will become the head of government agencies.

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Eriokanmi: 12:07pm On Nov 04, 2022
The coast is becoming quite clearer. If it's not news about Emilokan's confusions today, its about Mr Mikano's fraud tomorrow. God thank you.

So, these are the rotten men who are aspiring to govern Nigeria ? God forbid.

Can someone pls multipy that 5.9m usd by 850? Omg! shocked
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by alimiadedayo1: 12:08pm On Nov 04, 2022
SenecaTheYonger:
You see these men, Atiku and Tinubu? They will finish Nigeria. I swear the kind of suffering they will bring will be unbelievable.
how will they finish Nigeria? so it is Peter obi that will rebuild Nigeria

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Nobody: 12:09pm On Nov 04, 2022
SenecaTheYonger:
You see these men, Atiku and Tinubu? They will finish Nigeria. I swear the kind of suffering they will bring will be unbelievable.

You see these men; Obi and Gunmi, they will finished Nigeria,

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by tamdun: 12:18pm On Nov 04, 2022
GreyLaw:


Tinubu has not stepped foot on US soil since he came back to Nigeria in the 90s.
Are u willing to bet grin
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by BJanta: 12:21pm On Nov 04, 2022
coconutbag:
Which kind visa dey cost 5.9 million USD?

' Arrangee ' visa bro , arrangee. Bribe
takers are everywhere to arrange
anything , even in Saudi Arabia.
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by DesignMaestro(m): 12:25pm On Nov 04, 2022
GreyLaw:


Tinubu has not stepped foot on US soil since he came back to Nigeria in the 90s.
He attended the Democrats' national convention in 2012.

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Funflipper: 12:25pm On Nov 04, 2022
coconutbag:
Which kind visa dey cost 5.9 million USD?

Visas for fugitives.
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by seguno2: 12:32pm On Nov 04, 2022
coconutbag:
Which kind visa dey cost 5.9 million USD?

You dey mind Tinubu’s propaganda newspaper, the Nation?

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Yankee101: 12:32pm On Nov 04, 2022
America no dey do 3rd party visa applications

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by seguno2: 12:36pm On Nov 04, 2022
Funflipper:
Visas for fugitives.

And how much is the visa for druggies

Francis5:
Nigeria’s Next Leader’s Ties to a Heroin Ring

Former Lagos provincial governor Bola Tinubu, affectionately nicknamed the Jagaban, is today seen as a shrewd if not “deeply Machiavellian” Svengali in Nigeria’s politics as well as the architect of a hugely successful anti-corruption platform. But 20 years ago he had to forfeit nearly half a million dollars to the U.S. Treasury Department after being named as an accomplice in a white heroin-trafficking and money-laundering ring that stretched from West Africa to the U.S. Midwest.

Although his case has been bandied about the Nigerian press for years, Tinubu’s involvement in a federal drug and racketeering investigation waged jointly by the DEA, FBI, and IRS has gone unreported elsewhere, even after his ascendance to Karl Rove-like status last month. A recent gauzy Financial Times profile of him, for instance, neglected to mention that two decades ago Tinubu was identified as a bagman for two Nigerian heroin movers who operated out of Chicago and Hammond, Indiana. They were Adegboyega Mueez Akande and Abiodun Agbele, Akande’s nephew, who was exposed to law enforcement after selling white heroin first to Lee Andrew Edwards, another dealer later jailed for trying to murder a federal agent, and then to an undercover cop.

In a 1993 court docket from the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois, which The Daily Beast obtained from Sahara Reporters, a Nigeria-focused news outlet, IRS Special Agent Kevin Moss said that Akande had run the white heroin ring in the late 1980s until 1990, when he handed off the U.S arm of the business to his nephew, who had arrived in 1988. Akande then returned to Nigeria but continued to oversee the operation from abroad with the help of others at home and in the United States, including his relatives. One of the individuals identified in his cartel by Moss was Tinubu, then a Chicago State University-educated accountant working as a treasurer for Mobil Oil Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of energy giant Mobil Oil, which was still a few years shy of its famous merger with Exxon in 1999.

In the biography section of his official website, Tinubu is described as having emigrated to the United States in 1975 “in search of the proverbial Golden Fleece with a heart brimming with unrelenting determination to achieve his visions.” This is certainly one way to describe his tenure stateside.

In 1989, Moss said in an affidavit, Tinubu established an individual money market account, into which he deposited $1,000 in traveler’s checks, and a negotiable order of withdrawal account (NOW) at First Heritage Bank in Country Club Hills, Illinois. The address Tinubu gave the bank was the same as the listed headquarters of Globe-Link International, the front company owned by Akande and his relatives.

“There’s a trend of various Nigerian politicians at the highest levels involved in dodgy business deals around the world, in property and cash.”

Bank employees told Moss that Akande had personally introduced them to Tinubu in December 1989 when who also opened a joint checking account with his wife, Oluremi Tinubu, who already kept a joint account with Akande’s wife at First Heritage. Five days after the NOW account was opened, $80,000 was wired into it from a bank in Houston maintained by one of Akande’s relatives. Tinubu would later use the NOW account to buy a $10,000 Certificate of Deposit for an $8,000 car loan, listing Akande as his cousin on the application.

At the time, Tinubu’s take home as a Mobil Oil Nigeria executive was a mere $2,400 a month and he claimed not to have any other revenue streams. Yet he still managed to deposit $661,000 into his individual money market account in 1990 and then another $1,216,500 a year later. He also opened more accounts with Citibank in its worldwide personal banking unit, transferring over half a million dollars from his First Heritage money market account into one of them in early 1991.

Mobil Oil Nigeria told Moss that Tinubu’s role at the company never involved transferring large sums of money between banks and that it didn’t keep deposits in any institutions in the south suburbs of Chicago, where First Heritage was based. Moreover, although Tinubu moved back to Nigeria in 1983, he neglected to file U.S. income tax returns after 1984 despite having sizable, interest-generating deposits in American banks. All of this was enough to persuade a magistrate judge of the Northern District to issue seizure warrants for Tinubu’s First Heritage and Citibank accounts. Collectively, more than $1.4 million belonging to the Nigerian was confiscated.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/27/nigeria-s-next-leader-s-ties-to-a-heroin-ring.html
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by KangaIye: 12:40pm On Nov 04, 2022
Gbasgbos everywhere grin
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by ArcChu: 12:46pm On Nov 04, 2022
Nation newspaper the maker of fake news and supporter of Emilokan.

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Agbegbaorogboye: 12:47pm On Nov 04, 2022
blamingthedevil:


https://thenationonlineng.net/atiku-firm-in-row-over-5-9m-visa-bill-payment/
Op it's like you work at the nason ba
Because this letter looks like you typed, printed and snapped it yourself just to write a dumb story on it.
I mean, how does it make sense that a company helped atiku to procure visa. You sef reason am na

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by shortIGBOman: 12:48pm On Nov 04, 2022
Propaganda from enemies of Nigeria. This won't stop us from casting our votes to Atiku.

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by DennisEche(m): 12:51pm On Nov 04, 2022
FAKE NEWS, A LETTER WRITTEN SINCE 19TH OF SEPTEMBER BUT DELIVERED AND AKNOWLDEGED ON 2022/10/11.
AND WHICH SERIOUS FIRMS SPELL UNITED STATE OF AMERICA AS AMERICAN

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Agbegbaorogboye: 12:52pm On Nov 04, 2022
Honourable1901:
America wey jagaban dey enter come out na him , atiku dey pay this amount for
When did jagaban enter America
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Kindledlight(m): 12:54pm On Nov 04, 2022
Guy fighting tooth and nail to win this election knowing it is his last chance.

When I hear him talk I just laugh as if he isn’t one of the people that brought us to this point we are as a country.
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Obyino: 12:54pm On Nov 04, 2022
Tinubuwins2023e:


If this news is about Tinubu, you foolish Obituary children will not call it fake news.
I wonder what is in the brains of ipob miscreants all over the world. Those set of people dont have a matured thinking functional brain
why do you guys term people supporting Peter Obi as IPOB? Please i need honest answers
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Agbegbaorogboye: 12:54pm On Nov 04, 2022
GreyLaw:


Tinubu has not stepped foot on US soil since he came back to Nigeria in the 90s.
Fact!!

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Tinubuadvocate: 12:55pm On Nov 04, 2022
You are just an hypocrite in what way Peter obi is better than these two men? Up to this moment non of you obi supporters are able to show us peter obi legacy.
Vote4Obi:
Tinubu and fake news. Anyways, he should know that he isn't any better than Atiku.

Let them continue deceiving themselves Sha. It is left for Nigerians to vote wisely or suffer the consequences!!

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Zetty177x: 1:01pm On Nov 04, 2022
coconutbag:
Which kind visa dey cost 5.9 million USD?

Person wen Dem ban from America....?so the firm packaged him

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by mmsen: 1:02pm On Nov 04, 2022
$5.9 million is enough to buy citizenship many times over. Not just a visa.

This all sounds very fishy.

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Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by emmancecute(m): 1:17pm On Nov 04, 2022
Exactly what Sowore said

Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by RichAbujaGuy: 1:31pm On Nov 04, 2022
One with means must always pay his bills in a timely fashion. This is not good news for his campaign. shocked
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by 43Ronin: 1:32pm On Nov 04, 2022
coconutbag:
Which kind visa dey cost 5.9 million USD?
The type that allows the American govt turn a blind incarceration eye untill you leave the US. If you look at that paper it was dated 2018. That was the year everybody was saying that Atiku cannot enter USA shortly b4 2019 election. Bottoming thay are all well known rogues.... atiku probably planned to oay with govt funds.
Re: Atiku, Firm In Row Over $5.9m Visa Bill Payment by Khallicopyro: 1:38pm On Nov 04, 2022
If Atiku wins... He will use our money to pay for visa to the moon, Mars, Jupiter and only God knows where

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