The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will today, Thursday arraign a retired Commissioner of Police, Mohammed Sambo, before an FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on a one-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N10 million. Mr. Sambo, who connived with Nuhu […]
Continue ReadingSenate President Bukola Saraki has withdrawn an application to stall his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) pending the hearing of his suit at the appeal court. The senate president is facing trial at the CCT for alleged false declaration of assets. On Monday at the appeal court, Kanu Agabi, Saraki’s lead counsel, […]
Continue ReadingThe Senate President, Bukola Saraki who is on trial at the Code Conduct Tribunal for false asset declaration has a new case to answer before the court. As reported by Punch newspaper, two new counts have been filed against Saraki at the CCT. One of the two charges came from the testimony of the star […]
Continue ReadingThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Nelly Mayshak, the suspended Director-General of the Pension Transitional Arrangement Directorate, and three others, Yoab Youssoufou, Patricia Iyogun, and Ruth Imonikhe for a N2.5bn fraud.PTAD is an independent pension agency established in August 2013 to oversee the management of pensions under the Defined Benefit Scheme for pensioners not […]
Continue ReadingIn a fresh statement, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has responded to the story making waves in print and online media, wherein details of the decoration of the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu was decorated as “Anti-Corruption Ambassador”. FULL STATEMENT The attention of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has been drawn to […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking on Tuesday, after he was decorated anti-corruption ambassador by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the deputy President of the Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu noted that if war against corruption must be achieved in all its ramifications, there was the urgent need for the establishment of Special Anti- Corruption Courts. Senator Ekweremadu who […]
Continue ReadingIn a massive leak of documents that shows offshore holdings of 12 current and former world leaders, Nigeria’s Senate President’s family is found complicit, with no less than four assets belonging to his all tucked away in secret offshore territories. Though these properties existed, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, failed to declare them […]
Continue ReadingThe Publicity Secretary of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi state, Alhaji Bashir Rimi-Zaya, has taken time to commend President Muhammadu Buhari for his fight against insurgency in the country.Mr. Rimi-Zaya made the commendation on Saturday in Bauchi. He noted that he was impressed with the measures taken by Buhari towards curbing terrorism in […]
Continue ReadingThe trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, is set to commence officially before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja after the Chairman of the CCT; Justice Danlami Umar struck out an application challenging the jurisdiction of the tribunal. Saraki had through his lawyer, Kanu Agabi had filed a motion seeking to quash […]
Continue ReadingJustice Abdul Kafarati of the federal high court, Abuja, has withdrawn from a fundamental rights suit filed by Senate President Bukola Saraki to quash the charges of false declaration of assets brought against him by the federal government at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Kafarati explained that his integrity had been called into question […]
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