Reps Order Arrest of CBN Gov, NNPC GMD, AGF, Others
The House of Representatives Committee on Public Petition has ordered the arrest of the Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Olayemi Cardoso; Accountant General of the Federation, Oluwatoyin Madein; and 17 others, over failure to appear before it for questioning on their functions. The motion for the arrest was moved on Tuesday by Fred Agbedi of the Peoples Democratic Party (Bayelsa), noting that the arrest was unavoidable due to the behaviour of those invited as they had been invited more than thrice without showing up. The Managing Directors of National Petroleum Investment Management Services, Ethiop Eastern Exploration and Production
Reps Summon Two Ministers, AGF, HSCF Over Failure of Mass Transit
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating the failure of the mass transit scheme in Nigeria has summoned the Minister of Finance, Mr Dele Alake to explain why the scheme failed. Others summoned include the minister of Trade and Investment, the Accountant General for the Federation, and the Head of Service of the Federation. Rep. Victor Ogene, the Chairman of the committee, issued the summon in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the committee decided to invite the ministers and others to supply it with requisite information regarding previous mass transit schemes in terms of disbursement. He said
Court Strikes out Emefiele Brothers’ Suits Against DSS, AGF
A Federal Capital Territory High court has struck out two separate fundamental rights enforcement suits by two siblings of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, against the Attorney General of the Federation and the Department of State Services. The two brothers, George Emefiele and Okanta Emefiele, had separately approached the court, seeking an order of perpetual injunction restraining the secret police from inviting, intimidating, harassing, and arresting or detaining them on any matter relating to the ongoing investigation of the suspended apex bank governor by the DSS. At the resumed hearing of the cases
Presidential ambition: Court declines Emefiele’s request to restrain INEC, AGF
A Federal High Court in Abuja has declined the request of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, to restrain the Independent National Electoral Commission and the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, from preventing him from pursuing his presidential ambition. Emefiele on Monday, through his lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), told the court in Abuja that he can run for the post of the President without vacating his position as the CBN governor. Ozekhome told the court that Section 84 ((12) of the Electoral Act as amended, 2022 does not affect Emefiele, being a public servant
Indicted SARS officials shall face prosecution- AGF Malami
The Federal Government’s investigative panel set up to probe allegations of rights violations by the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other tactical units of the Nigeria Police Force held its first sitting in Abuja on Wednesday. The panel was inaugurated on behalf of the Federal Government by the National Human Rights Commission on October 21, 2020 in reaction to the recent #EndSARS protests and was expected tp turn in its report within six months. Shortly after the ceremonial inaugural sitting, the 11-man panel, led by Justice Ibrahim Galadima, a retired Justice of the Supreme Court, began the hearing of two
BREAKING: Malami, AGF, takes over Sowore’s case from DSS
The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has taken over the case against the #RevolutionNow protests convener, Omoyele Sowore, from the Department of State Services. A statement by the minister’s Special Assistant on Media and Public Relations, Dr. Umar Gwandu, confirmed this on Friday. The statement referred to a December 11, 2019 letter sent on behalf of the AGF by the Solicitor-General of the Federation, Mr. Dayo Apata (SAN), to the Director-General of DSS, Yusuf Bichi, directing the security agency to “promptly forward all the case files” to the AGF office. The letter by
Previous Acquittal Can’t Stop You From Fresh Trial – AGF Tells Saraki
The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation has validated the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and any other law enforcement agency to investigate the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, for alleged corrupt activities. Responding to the fundamental right enforcement suit filed by Saraki to stop his probe by the EFCC, the AGF office said the acquittal of the Senate President in previous criminal cases, including the one instituted against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, could not stop him from being charged with another offence. Saraki had contended in the suit before Justice Taiwo Taiwo
