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12-31-2014, 12:08 PM
For $3,000,000,000, I would bang even Oprah.
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12-31-2014, 12:12 PM
Wow. All those e-mails must be working out for her then.
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12-31-2014, 12:14 PM
Nigeria will be an interesting country to watch over the next couple of decades.
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12-31-2014, 12:23 PM
Assuming they crush Boko Harem.
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12-31-2014, 12:59 PM
Given that Nigeria is generally ranked as one of the most corrupt countries in the world, I can only assume that a woman going from secretary to billionaire is a signal of something very shady going on. My guess would be that whoever was in power had already stolen as much as they could in the names of their own family members and relatives, and that when a particularly juicy piece of state petroleum property came up for sale, they put it in the name of a useful patsy who wouldn't rock the boat. The clothing thing is probably just a way to launder money and keep her happy.
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12-31-2014, 01:19 PM
I grew up in Nigeria, and I can tell you for sure that her wealth is being vastly underreported. When the military was in power just under two decades ago, the then military ruler Abacha(one of the most notorious embezzler nigeria has ever seen) gave out multiple oil blocks to people loyal to him. Many of these oil blocks are half owned by Chinese investors who come in and run the oil exploration process (in exchange for 30-40% ownership)and all she has to do is sit on her ass and collect 60% (best gig ever).
There are many of these billionaires in Nigeria, to be honest she may not even be the richest woman in Nigeria.
In regards to Boko Haram, the current president is a pussy and is surrounded by bad advisers, he lacks direction to deal with such a situation and he is in over his head. He is currently running in an election that ends in Feruary with a former General (Mohammed Buhari) who has attended some of the best military schools in the world, Colin Powell was one of his classmates. Mostly everyone in the country will want Buhari to become president, if he does, you won't hear of Boko Haram 10 months into his regime.
Nigeria is prime for investments, I have some cheap land there and plan to buy more in the coming years so I can flip.
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12-31-2014, 01:25 PM
Richest dude in Africa is also a Nigerian. Everywhere the go they are balling. Are they balling in the West?
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12-31-2014, 02:16 PM
a significant proportion of Alakija’s fortune comes from an oil-exploration license granted to her company Famfa Ltd. in 1993
She's the standard heiress to third world rent seeking wealth. Oprah may be a social and media parasite but she got there without outright theft.
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12-31-2014, 02:52 PM
She didn't inherit the money or marry into it, she just worked for it. That's a huge plus.
Maybe there is corruption involved as alleged here, but it's still admirable compared to the usual fare of strong rich independent women that the media tries to cram down our throats.
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12-31-2014, 03:01 PM
Beats divorce rape theft.
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12-31-2014, 03:31 PM
Quote: (12-31-2014 12:08 PM)French Translator Wrote:
For $3,000,000,000, I would bang even Oprah.
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12-31-2014, 03:32 PM
I know another Nigerian like this.
One day their tribe gets some power and bam...everyone gets government contracts for something or other.
On another note, I think a lot of people do not realise what a massive fuck off country Nigeria actually is. It's huge.
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12-31-2014, 03:32 PM
Quote: (12-31-2014 02:52 PM)Handsome Creepy Eel Wrote:
She didn't inherit the money or marry into it, she just worked for it. That's a huge plus.
Maybe there is corruption involved as alleged here, but it's still admirable compared to the usual fare of strong rich independent women that the media tries to cram down our throats.
I somewhat disagree. I think both are horrible. Stealing wealth that rightfully belongs to the Nigerian people is one of the major reasons it's such a shithole of human misery...and not exactly what comes to mind when I think of work.
If there is any silver lining to this, its that SJWs may trumpet this woman as an example of a brilliant female entrepreneur who started with nothing...and end up discredited, as this woman is just a figurehead for a notorious band of thieves.
I read a bit more about this. Apparently through her fashion studies or whatever, she somehow came in contact with people close to Dear Leader, including the wife. This opened the door to the oil exploration license for 680,000 acres, which just happened to be extraordinarily valuable (gee I wonder if they knew). Selling state assets at cut rate prices to insiders who are not really the real owners (but who still get paid plenty to go along with it) is not exactly a new thing.
As for the later court case...that doesn't really prove much, since Nigerian courts are for sale. It could have been for public show, it could have been a way to warn her. Presumably if the Nigerian elites who let her have a seat at the table were actually displeased with her, she would have a helicopter crash or something.
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12-31-2014, 03:48 PM
Well Nigeria could easily be one of the world's most prosperous nations if it wasn't, for all intents and purposes, owned by multi-national oil companies.
These sorts of reports create the impression that Nigerians generally do benefit from the oil wealth. I'm skeptical about the motives for these reports.
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12-31-2014, 05:32 PM
Quote: (12-31-2014 03:48 PM)brick tamland Wrote:
Well Nigeria could easily be one of the world's most prosperous nations if it wasn't, for all intents and purposes, owned by multi-national oil companies.
These sorts of reports create the impression that Nigerians generally do benefit from the oil wealth. I'm skeptical about the motives for these reports.
I enjoy a good story of of western exploitation as much as anyone else, but, in this case...
While the MNCs are certainly rapacious and self interested, the Nigerian elites are equally so. Whatever the MNCs don't take, the Nigerian elites steal. Corruption is universal and state sponsored.
You could ban all MNCs and nationalize the Nigerian oil industry 100%, and here is what would happen - production would fall somewhat due to incompetence, and although state revenue would likely be much higher overall despite the falling production, the amount of oil wealth used for the benefit of the average Nigerian citizen would remain relatively constant at approximately zero percent.
Kicking out the MNCs would mean fatter bank accounts in Dubai/Carrib/Switzerland for about .001% of the Nigerian population.
To have Nigeria be truly prosperous, you would have to kick out the MNCs, and imprison/execute/confiscate the stolen wealth of a few thousand of the countries corrupt business and political elites.
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12-31-2014, 06:24 PM
Sounds like Nigeria is pretty much like the US circa late 1800's
The Rockefeller's, Carnegie's and Vanderbilt's amassed huge holdings and wealth due to the lack of regulatory laws.
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12-31-2014, 06:39 PM
Man. The place does seem to have the allure of the wild west.