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Fresh court documents show Nigeria’s anti-graft agency secretly froze three Osun State government accounts rather than the single bank facility it publicly acknowledged. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission obtained a sweeping ex parte court order in Abuja on August 5th to lock down state money. Investigator affidavits targeted both the state’s primary federal allocation…
The Federal Government has secured guilty pleas from three terrorism suspects linked to the kidnapping of students and teachers in Oyo State. Prosecutors brought the men before the Federal High Court in Abuja on fresh terrorism charges. The defendants admitted guilt on several counts involving kidnapping, arms possession, and terror financing. Their sudden confession hands…
Bello Bodejo will remain in custody through the judicial summer break. The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday refused to hear his plea to soften his steep bail conditions. Justice Inyang Ekwo cited the upcoming court vacation as the primary reason for his refusal. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission filed a counter affidavit…
A former helmsman of one of Nigeria’s most troubled state owned refineries walked into a courtroom in Abuja on Monday to answer for how hundreds of thousands of dollars allegedly moved through his hands outside the banking system, in a case that once again places the country’s refining sector at the centre of an…
Weeks of evasion ended for Adeniyi Adeyemi on Tuesday when operatives of the police Intelligence Response Team tracked the self styled Director General of the disputed Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council to a hideout in Osun State, only hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his arrest. The swift sequence of events…
A bench warrant now hangs over Prince Adeniyi Adeyemi, the self styled Director General of a council the Presidency insists never existed, after he failed to appear at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday for an arraignment that has stalled five separate times. Justice Mohammed Umar issued the order following an…
The man at the centre of one of the most audacious impersonation scandals to hit the Nigerian public service in years has broken his silence, insisting he is not on the run even as the Nigeria Police Force moves to place him before a judge on forgery and impersonation charges. Adeniyi Adeyemi, who styled…
A once-prominent figure in President Bola Tinubu’s cabinet stood in the dock of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday, entering a not-guilty plea to a six-count charge that has placed the credibility of his academic record at the centre of a closely watched corruption trial. Uche Nnaji, former Minister of Innovation,…
A fresh war of words has broken out between the Federal Government and one of Nigeria’s most vocal online campaigners, after activist Mark Chidiebere Justice, widely known as Justice Crack, publicly rejected an allegation by the Minister of Defence, Christopher Musa, that he coached soldiers to doctor a viral video about their meals. The…
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of Bello Bodejo, the national president of Miyetti Allah Kauta Hore. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission arraigned the pastoralist leader on a 12-count charge involving money laundering and terrorism financing. The anti-graft agency accuses Bodejo of illegally receiving $ 2.63 million in cash. Justice…
