The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has nullified the conviction and seven years jail term imposed on Olisa Metuh, the former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and his company, Destra Investment Limited. The appellant court had fixed today, Wednesday, December 16, to deliver judgment in Metuh’s consolidated appeals challenging the verdict of
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Faisal, son of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Taskforce Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, who was declared wanted by the Federal High Court in Abuja, has been arrested. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, confirmed to the court on Thursday that the 21-year-old Faisal, who jumped bail since June 24, was apprehended by
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Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, on Thursday slumped in court upon his appearance for continuation of his prosecution in a 12-count charge.Maina slumps at exactly 10:05 am inside the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja just as his counsel, Anayo Adibe, was about to make submissions before the presiding
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Lack of accountability and prudent management of funds released by the Federal Government to aid education and social investment in Ebonyi State University has caused more issues for the varsity as House of Representatives members of the National Assembly in charge of Adhoc Committee on Public Accounts, on Monday raised an alarm over it. The
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The House of Representatives has invited Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget and national planning as well as Ahmed Idris, the accountant-general of the federation over the purported illegal withdrawal of $21 billion from the Nigeria Liquefied and Natural Gas Limited (NLNG)’s Dividends
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The run away former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina, has been arrested by the operatives of intelligence service in a collaboration with men of anti-corruption agency in Nigeria in a town in the Niger Republic. Maina, who is being prosecuted on 12 counts of money laundering to the tune of
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The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Monday, refused to admit as exhibit a document tendered by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the ongoing trial of a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Andrew Yakubu. Yakubu is being prosecuted by the EFCC on charges bordering on the cash sums of
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The anti-graft agency, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission ICPC, has placed the acting Director-General (DG) of the National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Alex Akpa, under detaintion for allegedly defrauding the federal government of N400 million An investigation by the commission revealed that the money, which the DG claimed to be an intervention
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Abulrasheed Maina’s Lawyer Adeola Adedipe, engaged by fleeing ex-Chairman of Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), in the ongoing trial for money laundering has tendered an application to quit the case. Adedipe, who is representing Maina’s company – Common Input Property and Investment Ltd -, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, at the
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The High Court sitting in Akwa Ibom State has issued a Bench Warrant for the arrest of a Professor of the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Prof. Ignatius Uduk, over his alleged involvement in electoral fraud during the 2019 general elections. This is coming even as high court 2 Ikot- Ikpene last week, arraigned
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The Nigerian army admitted on Saturday that soldiers were given both live and blank bullets when they were deployed to protests at Lekki toll gate on October 20. The admission seems to confirm a key finding of investigation into the shooting. The Nigerian Army yesterday admitted that soldiers were given both live and blank bullets
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The Department of State Services (DSS) has said that it has commenced investigation into the killing of Ifeanyi Elechi, a newspaper vendor, by one of its personnel attached to Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila. This was disclosed by the Public Relations Officer of the service, Dr Peter Afunanya, in a statement on
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday received the final report of the Justice Ayo Salami-led probe panel on alleged infractions by the suspended Acting Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr Ibrahim Magu. A statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, however, quoted Salami as saying the
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A Kaduna State High Court on Wednesday resumed the trial of the embattled leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), Sheikh Ibrahim El- Zakzaky, and his wife, Zeenat. The Kaduna State Government charged El-Zakzaky and Zeenat with eight counts bordering on alleged culpable homicide, unlawful assembly and disruption of the public peace among other
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The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the revocation of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT)’s bail. Okon Abang, the judge, who gave the order in a ruling, also issued a bench warrant for Mr Maina’s arrest “anywhere he is sighted.” Maina was granted bail in the sum of N500
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