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Monday, February 25, 2013

Celeb Nigerian Leader Paid Beyonce and Jay-Z With Public Money for the Poor

Posted by on Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:30 AM

Africa Is a Country reports:

Whatever Jay-Z and Beyonce were expecting when they went to Nigeria in 2006, they can’t have seen this one coming.
If the document New York-based muckrakers Sahara Reporters have published is authentic, then they have just scooped one of the news stories of the decade. No doubt about it. It is alleged that in 2006 the most powerful man in African media, Nduka Obaigbena (known for hobnobbing with celebrities from Lil Kim to Colin Powell to Henry Kissinger) paid for the Knowles-Carters’ Nigerian visit by successfully soliciting $1 million of public money from none other than the current president, Goodluck Jonathan, when he was governor of Bayelsa State. And the kicker? In the letter they’ve published that money appears to have been paid out directly from the state’s “poverty alleviation fund”.
They walked on stage, the people came, and the poor definitely did not get paid. First World types must always keep in mind that, though there's no such thing as clean money, the money in Nigeria is almost always exceptionally dirty.

 

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if i remember correctly didn't the NYT and wikileaks obtain documents last year that found that beyonce, usher and others had gotten paid extremely well for private shows done for the qaddafi family in libya as well?
Posted by illuminati much on February 26, 2013 at 9:47 AM

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