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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:10pm On Oct 06, 2014
International thief thief (ITT).......our president wil set up committee to look into d matter....yeye! yeye!!

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Skywalker5(m): 3:10pm On Oct 06, 2014
Na wa oo. Why our politicians dey do this na?

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Truckpusher(m): 3:14pm On Oct 06, 2014
omenka:
The curse and embarrassment of a bad leadership is worse than leprosy!!

It would amount to a disaster of biblical proportions if these people are returned to ruin what is left of this piece of relic they've created out of this once great country.

#KickOutCluelesnessForever
#KickOutTheCankerworms

Vote GMB for President Federal Republic of Nigeria!!
Once great country? shocked
Are you an alien? undecided
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by obailala(m): 3:14pm On Oct 06, 2014
Abraham2013:

Same way GEJ will start enforcing simple laws which exist all over d world dat d south african break on daily basis. Don't worry by d time GEJ face dem, dey will pay back dat money 3 times + abeg wey dey ontop
eddie000:



You know anything about life? What kinda law? Shey South Africa companies in Nigeria dey pay their full dues? Listen, get to the top and see dirty deals, this is not the first time of them dealing okay?
It really beats my imagination that there are normal human beings who will openly support and defend this kind of illegality to the extent of blaming SA.

Just before I assume quickly, please are you guys even normal? undecided

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by eleko1: 3:15pm On Oct 06, 2014
sad sadDo we care here? The same Niagra they Ave milked/sucked dry,battered and plummeted left and rite?Suffering and smilling
OkikiOluwa1:

Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Ayostically: 3:17pm On Oct 06, 2014
Dotman01:
'Dumb' is an under-statement.
$9.3+$5.7=$15million.
They only went to giv them the balance. $15mil, that is ehn...
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Afritop(m): 3:17pm On Oct 06, 2014
Atimes I wonder if it is a crime to commit this bulk of money to the development of the economy. And whether the citizens have wronged its leaders

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teeboy2110(m): 3:27pm On Oct 06, 2014
What a shameful country his peoples are suffering for money n development.

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by ezugegere(m): 3:32pm On Oct 06, 2014
Read this article and know that even America purchases
arms from the black markets:
The Sheraton hotel in Sofia,
Bulgaria, is a neoclassical colossus built during the Soviet
era. The rear end of the building butts up on a 4th-
century church and mossy Roman ruins, and it dwarfs the
country’s adjoining presidential palace. Inside the hotel, a
dark-eyed woman in a pantsuit invites guests to the erotic
nightclub in the hotel basement. Skip the strip club, and
there’s a hotel bar with a spacious lounge, where
carpeting absorbs sound, and marble pillars reflect the
light of the massive crystal chandeliers. It is here that a
short, heavyset, American arms dealer visiting from
Fresno, Calif., held his business meetings. Bulgarian
weapons dealers said that this man — 53-year-old Ara
Dolarian — was likable and garrulous. He was often there
on behalf of the U.S. government or its allies, shopping
for weapons destined for America’s most difficult and
dangerous foreign-policy tangles, such as Iraq and
Afghanistan. From 2006 until last year, Dolarian managed
to get contracts affiliated with the U.S. government that
ranged from less than $20,000 to $14 million. One
$588,000 Dolarian deal last year was for an operation still
shrouded in secrecy. American commandos wanted
dozens of Kalashnikov rifles, a handful of the massive,
Soviet bloc machine guns nicknamed Dushkas to mount
on trucks, some rocket-propelled grenade launchers, and
hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition — a
standard package for a foreign quick-reaction force that
the U.S. could train and deploy, according to special
forces veterans who perused the shopping list for
BuzzFeed. It isn’t clear what group the U.S. intended to
arm with this contract, parts of which are apparently
classified, though the timing fit with secret U.S. training
programs for Syrian rebel forces. Intelligence agencies
and the military declined to comment. They also declined
to comment on whether they knew certain pertinent facts
about Dolarian: When his company landed the subcontract
to buy these weapons, he was the subject of a federal
criminal grand jury investigation for possibly violating
U.S. arms-dealing laws and had been found by a civil
court in California to have defrauded investors there.
Dolarian’s tale highlights how the U.S. relies on small but
important defense-contracting bottom fish to arm some of
the world’s most violent and unstable military forces. The
U.S. is famously the largest arms exporter in the world .
Less well-known is that America also purchases massive
amounts of foreign-made weapons, most of them
manufactured in the former Soviet bloc. In an effort to
build up and train friendly security services, the U.S.
saturates some the most violent regions of the world with
these arms but has little control over who ultimately gets
them. The Pentagon or U.S. intelligence agencies often
issue contracts themselves for these weapons. But other
times, American tax dollars go through a proxy, such as
an Afghan government agency, which issues the contract
but which is heavily funded and guided by the U.S.
Dolarian was involved in both types of contracts. While
most coverage of the weapons trade tracks the
multibillion-dollar deals in fighter jets, strategic missiles,
or radar systems, most killing in modern wars is done
with cheap rifles, machine guns, mortars, and other small
arms. Over the last decade, the U.S. has sent more than
700,000 weapons — the vast majority foreign-made small
arms — to Afghanistan, where President Barack Obama
has staked his strategy on training and arming the army
and police. Likewise, in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, the
U.S. disbanded the security forces only to rebuild and
rearm new ones for eight years, sending over a million
weapons by some estimates. The majority of these were
Russian- designed small arms. These are the types of
arms that Dolarian, a man the state of California banned
from selling certain financial securities, was given U.S.
tax dollars to purchase. This line of work has seen its
share of scandal. In 2007, the Pentagon awarded a $300
million contract for Warsaw Pact ammunition to a
company run by a 21-year-old Miami man, Efraim Diveroli,
who had limited experience in the arms trade. The story
of Diveroli, later convicted of fraud after his company
sent decades-old, flawed ammunition to Afghanistan, is
set to be made into Hollywood movie called Arms and the
Dudes. Since that fiasco, the government has tried to use
well-known, established defense contractors to equip
Afghanistan’s forces, and procure this type of weaponry.
But as the Dolarian tale shows, it doesn’t always work
out that way.
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by seunlayi(m): 3:33pm On Oct 06, 2014
some people are truly sabotaging Nigeria effort to hurriedly acquire better weapon. south African govt are involved, they want naija to fail

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by GoodcasHMan: 3:35pm On Oct 06, 2014
UNTIL WE ARE ABLE TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN [i][/i]CORRUPTION AND STEALING [i][/i]THERE IS A GREAT PROBLEM

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:36pm On Oct 06, 2014
How dumb are Nigerians and Nairaland in particular?

The write up tries desperately to link previous events with the current.

No where was it stated that the money flight originated from government circles other than that the money was intercepted from a flight out of Nigeria.

The first paragraph only mentions money seizures and the country of origin.

The author then sneakishly loops previous events into it making the 2 events seem like one.

Over 90% of the write up is dedicated to the last event and nothing to do with this latest cash seizure.

For all we know it can be a governor ferrying cash as they are used to in the past.

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teniola55(m): 3:37pm On Oct 06, 2014
Nlmadfreak:
Now, i think this is becoming insane.. What are they now taking us for??
Nlmadfreak:
Now, i think this is becoming insane.. What are they now taking us for??
Nlmadfreak:
Now, i think this is becoming insane.. What are they now taking us for??
as in
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by wharleniquary1: 3:38pm On Oct 06, 2014
eyaah! S/A again
y always we?
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Virgindove(f): 3:39pm On Oct 06, 2014
Where are the TAN volunteers? Is this the type of transformation you want Nigerians to continue with?

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:40pm On Oct 06, 2014
wonders shall start!
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teniola55(m): 3:40pm On Oct 06, 2014
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keemaQ:
I'm not proud to be a nigerian, will never be
keemaQ:
I'm not proud to be a nigerian, will never be
keemaQ:
I'm not proud to be a nigerian, will never be
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by teniola55(m): 3:40pm On Oct 06, 2014
keemaQ:
I'm not proud to be a nigerian, will never be
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by justhelp(m): 3:41pm On Oct 06, 2014
am not surprise since we have clueless President and SA want to take us down from best economy in Africa and demote us back to number 2, they are not happy since we take over from them, now they are looking for ways to disgrace us and our number man has no clue about this, what a useless leader we have.
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by deScifa(m): 3:43pm On Oct 06, 2014
duni04:
Comon people, these people were not trying to buy any arms! M sure if someone digs deeper, they'll find that the money was being laundered on behalf of one topshot in Abuja. Its big time money laudering gone wrong. They're just feeding us with bobo about buying arms and boko haram to get us off their tail. Which country in the world borrows jets from private individuals to transport state assets?

Nigeria under GEJ

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:45pm On Oct 06, 2014
justhelp:
am not surprise since we have clueless President and SA want to take us down from best economy in Africa and demote us back to number 2, they are not happy since we take over from them, now they are looking for ways to disgrace us and our number man has no clue about this, what a useless leader we have.
I think you are the foolish one here like most of the posters.

The author decieved you. There is no mention of the identities of the individuals caught with this new seizure and no link to the FG. The main story you are arguing back and forth ends in the first paragraph. The author then loops the previous case in as part of the new seizure.

For all we know the cash could be linked to Tinubu and Sanusi.

Why not wait for more details than to rush in like a rabid bull and post your crap.

If in doubt read the article again.

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by EldaTimba(m): 3:49pm On Oct 06, 2014
RevDesmondJuju:
How dumb are Nigerians and Nairaland in particular?

The write up tries desperately to link previous events with the current.

No where was it stated that the money flight originated from government circles other than that the money was intercepted from a flight out of Nigeria.

The first paragraph only mentions money seizures and the country of origin.

The author then sneakishly loops previous events into it making the 2 events seem like one.

Over 90% of the write up is dedicated to the last event and nothing to do with this latest cash seizure.

For all we know it can be a governor ferrying cash as they are used to in the past.
Don't mind the dumb nairalanders. Most people commenting never read the article.

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by ransomed: 3:49pm On Oct 06, 2014
They force us to go cashless but, they are carrying cash up and down even to other Nations. We never have leaders, we are being controlled by RULERS..

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Billygee2u: 3:50pm On Oct 06, 2014
omenka:
The curse and embarrassment of a bad leadership is worse than leprosy!!

It would amount to a disaster of biblical proportions if these people are returned to ruin what is left of this piece of relic they've created out of this once great country.

#KickOutCluelesnessForever
#KickOutTheCankerworms

Vote GMB for President Federal Republic of
Nigeria!!
so because you want GMB,you condemned the
GEJ government ?
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:54pm On Oct 06, 2014
TheIndustrialist:


The men landed at Lanseria
International Airport, Johannesburg, on
September 5 in a private jet from Abuja
with the money stashed in three
suitcases.



http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/10/south-africa-seizes-another-5-7-m-nigerian-arms-deal/

A wise man once said believe nothing you read and half of only what you see.
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by justhelp(m): 3:54pm On Oct 06, 2014
RevDesmondJuju:

I think you are the foolish one here like most of the posters.

The author decieved you. There is no mention of the identities of the individuals caught with this new seizure and no link to the FG. The main story you are arguing back and forth ends in the first paragraph. The author then loops the previous case in as part of the new seizure.

For all we know the cash could be linked to Tinubu and Sanusi.

Why not wait for more details than to rush in like a rabid bull and post your crap.

If in doubt read the article again.
Animal continue showing ur stupidity here because u are too useless to be useful like FG anyway i dont blame u cos u are not well brought up that is why u lack values just like ur forefathers
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by valmunich(m): 3:55pm On Oct 06, 2014
What the fvck is actually wrong with our government? undecided angry

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Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by DMerciful(m): 3:55pm On Oct 06, 2014
Who cares!
keemaQ:
I'm not proud to be a nigerian, will never be
Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:56pm On Oct 06, 2014
justhelp:
Animal continue showing ur stupidity here because u are too useless to be useful like FG anyway i dont blame u cos u are not well brought up that is why u lack values just like ur forefathers

I don't blame you. You were born stup1d. In short I believe your condition should be classified as a mental handicap and should be place high up with autism.

Re: South Africa Seizes Another $5.7m Nigeria’s Arms Deal by Nobody: 3:57pm On Oct 06, 2014
valmunich:
What the fvck is actually wrong with our government? undecided angry

read the original post again and this time around do it slowly and try to comprehend the dubious author's intended objectives.

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