A court sitting in Kogi state has granted bail in the sum of N10 million Senator Dino Melaye. Mr Melaye, who represents Kogi west at the senate, was given bail by Justice Nasiru Ajanah. The senator was arraigned for alleged gun-running. He faces separate charges in Abuja, bordering on giving false information, offences he denied […]
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While addressing state house correspondents after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has said even if Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, is pretending, he cannot pretend forever. Senate President Bukola Saraki also attended the meeting and spoke with reporters alongside Dogara. Reporters had […]
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Kogi State Chief Judge, Nasir Ajanah, has granted an interim order for Dino Melaye, senator representing Kogi west, to be transferred to the National Hospital, Abuja. While responding to Mike Ozekhome’s (counsel to Melaye) processes for motion seeking bail for the senator, Ajanah said the hearing for the bail conditions of the senator would hold on […]
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The Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu, has said only N100 million was spent on the bid to recall Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district. Yakubu said this at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, debunking the allegation of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that the commission spent […]
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Senator representing Kogi West, Dino Melaye was on Thursday morning arraigned before a magistrate court in Lokoja, Kogi state capital, where he was refused bail and remanded in police custody until 11 June. Senator Melaye was charged with conspiracy and aiding of jail break. Melaye was brought to court in a police ambulance around 9:17 […]
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The Nigerian Police Force has moved the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Dino Melaye, to Lokoja in an ambulance. The Senator was earlier taken to the office of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in the north-central state, was guarded by armed policemen. According to the police, Melaye is being arraigned […]
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Senator Dino Melaye was arraigned on Tuesday, May 2, 2018 by the police in a chief magistrate’s court in Wuse Zone II district of Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. His arraignment followed his discharge from the National Hospital, where the police had sequestered him since last week Tuesday. He was re-arrested after being granted N90million […]
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Sen. Dino Melaye has thanked the people of his constituency for “rising to his defence” by shunning the verification exercise held on April 28 to recall him from the Senate. Melaye, in a statement issued in Lokoja on Sunday, also thanked the political leaders, elders and traditional rulers in Kogi West for “rescuing him from […]
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The attempt to recall the Senator representing Kogi West Senatorial District, Dino Melaye, has failed after the verified signatories to the petition for his recall fell short of requirements. For the verification exercise to succeed, 50 percent plus one of the signatories to the petition had to be verified. However, based on the results announced […]
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Reports have shown that many constituents from Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye’s senatorial district shunned the INEC verification exercise on the lawmaker’s recall held on Saturday. The exercise was planned to take place in 560 polling units that make up the senatorial district. Online news platform, TheCable said some constituents told it the exercise slated […]
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