An associate of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Kolawole Aluko, has lost his bid to reclaim some of his assets forfeited to the Federal Government. One of the assets is a mansion in Abuja, which the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says is valued at about $18 million. Justice Elfrieda […]
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday admitted in evidence a letter from the office of National Security Adviser (NSA) in the ongoing trial of former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode. The letter, according to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) contains details of how Fani-Kayode got N26million from the office of […]
Edwin Clark, an Ijaw national leader, says the clause in the new electoral act, which requires political appointees to resign their positions before participating in party primaries, will stop “impunity”. Section 84 (12) of the Electoral Act 2022 reads: “No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for […]
The Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) says Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano, has several corruption cases to answer. Sadiq Radda, executive secretary of the committee, said this on Thursday at the 26th Anti-Corruption Situation Room (ACSR) assessment held in Abuja. TheCable had reported in October 2021 how Hafsat, wife of Ganduje, was arrested […]
A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja today, Thursday, February 24, 2022, ordered the interim forfeiture of a property at Plot 1032 & 1033 Cadastral Zone AO3, Takum Close, Off Michika Street, Ahmadu Bello Way, Garki Abuja, reasonably suspected to be proceeds of unlawful activities of former Imo State governor, Senator Rochas Anayo Okorocha. […]
A secondary school principal in Gombe State, Mr. Bello Muhammed Abubakar, has been arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) over alleged fraudulent activities and other ancillary offences. The commission, in a two-count charge brought before Justice Halima S. Muhammed of Gombe State High Court 2, told the court […]
A federal high court in Abuja has ordered an interim forfeiture of 10 properties linked to Abdulaziz Yari, former Zamfara governor. Obiora Egwuatu, the presiding judge, gave the order on Wednesday, following an ex-parte motion moved by Osuobeni Akponimisingha, a lawyer to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). Egwuatu held […]
The Federal High Court Jos Division has sentenced a former Minister of Water Resources, Sarah Ochekpe as well as Raymond Dabo and Evangelist Leo Sunday Jitung to three-month imprisonment each. The trio had been standing trial for four years on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering. The sentence however has an option of […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, will on Tuesday, arraign a former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, before the Federal High Court in Abuja over his alleged complicity in a N2.9billion fraud. Okorocha, who piloted affairs of Imo state from 2011 to 2019, will take his plea before trial Justice Inyang Ekwo. […]
POLICE investigations have revealed how members of a syndicate led by international scammer, Ramon Abass, popularly known as Hushpuppi paid N235, 120, 000 to a younger brother of a former Commander, Intelligence Response Team, Abba Kyari The probe also indicates that Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, equally funnelled N44m to his brother’s bank […]
