Chuks Okocha in Abuja
As preparation for the 2023 general election continues, the African Democratic Congress ( ADC) has rejected plans by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to create additional polling units in the country.
The issue of additional polling units, which was shelved ahead of the 2015 general election, seems to have taken the centre stage again.
In August 2014, INEC, under the leadership of Prof. Attahiru Jega, sought to create 30,027 additional polling units ahead of the 2015 general election, with 21,615 in the north and 8,412 in the southern part of the country.
Addressing a press conference on the state of the nation at the weekend, the ADC said creating more polling units in addition to the existing 120,000 would further increase the cost of electioneering in the country.
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it hopes to overturn the rulings that freed Orji Kalu, current Senate chief whip and Olisa Metuh, former national publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from prison this year.
The commission, through its monthly publication entitled ‘EFCC Alert’ listed Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation; Adesola Amosu, former chief of air staff; Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team; Andrew Yakubu, former group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger state, and Winifred Oyo-Ita, former head of civil service of the federation as some of the prominent Nigerians whose corruption cases would continue in court this year.
The former Managing Director of Finbank Plc, Mr Okey Nwosu, has been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment after being found guilty for over N10 billion fraud by Justice Lateefa A. Okunnu of the Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday, January 5, 2021.
Mr Nwosu, alongside his fellow defendants, Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma Ocholi had been arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) bordering on stealing and illegal conversion to the tune of N10.9 billion.
However, they had earlier pleaded not guilty to the charge preferred against them, thereby leading to their full trial.
LAGOS – A Lagos State High Court sitting in Ikeja, on Tuesday has convicted and sentenced Chief Okey Nwosu, a former Managing Director, Finbank Plc, to three years imprisonment for N10.9m fraud.
Justice Lateefat A. Okunnu who delivered the Judgement found the defendants guilty, sentenced the first and second defendants, Nwosu and Famoroti, to three years imprisonment each.
She also sentenced the third defendant, Ocholi, to 12 months imprisonment and slammed a six- month community service on the fourth defendant, Ebubedike.
It will be recalled that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned Nwosu alongside Dayo Famuroti, Agnes Ebubedike and Danjuma Ocholi on a 26-count amended charge bordering on stealing and illegal conversion to the tune of N10,934,704,402.
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