The Supreme Court of Nigeria, on Friday ruled that Senate President Bukola Saraki has no case to answer at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Recall that the CCT had struck out the alleged false assets declaration charges against the senate president but the federal government filed an appeal. But in its ruling on Friday, […]
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The Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) has clarified that Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar remains its chairman in the prosecution of public officers who contravene asset declaration laws in the country as mandated by the federal government and the country’s constitution. The Head of Press and Public Relations of the tribunal, Malam Ibraheem Alhassan who made […]
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The President of the Nigerian Senate, Bukola Saraki, will today (Tuesday) be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, an agency of the Nigerian Government. Saraki is facing an abridged three-count charge which derived from the original 18-count charge preferred against him for false assets declaration. In a Facebook post confirming his arraignment, Saraki said […]
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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed a fresh two-count charge of fraud against Danladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). In the suit filed at the high court of the federal capital territory (FCT) by Festus Keyamo, senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), on behalf of the EFCC, it was […]
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The Code of Conduct Tribunal will today, Wednesday, deliver judgment on the no-case submission filed by Bukola Saraki, Senate President, to challenge his trial bordering on false assets declaration and other related offenses. Saraki had contended that none of the exhibits tendered linked him to the offences he was being tried for. His lead defence […]
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The trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki, was stalled by the absence of prosecution witnesses on Thursday in Abuja at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). The senate president is standing trial over alleged false assets declaration while serving as governor of Kwara . That the trial had suffered similar fate between April 18 and […]
Continue ReadingThe Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, has fixed October 5 as a day it will make the verdict on a fresh motion seeking to suspend hearing on the 16-count criminal charge pending against the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki.Recall that it was alleged that Saraki made false/anticipatory declaration of assets, operated foreign accounts while in […]
Continue ReadingDanladi Umar, chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), on Wednesday, said that he was only joking when he said that Decree 2 should be brought back to deal with erring journalists. Umar said this through Ibraheem Alhassan, spokesman of the CCT, in a statement. Decree 2, a repressive law against the press, was […]
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 […]
Continue ReadingThe Code of Conduct Tribunal has on Friday 18th of March 2016 fixed Thursday March 24, 2016 for ruling on the motion filed by the Senate President’s lead counsel – Kanu Godwin Agabi (SAN) seeking to quash the charges relating to asset declaration against his client, Bukola Abubakar Saraki (Senate President) before the Code of […]
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