By Michael Olugbode
The Court of Appeal in Gombe State has ordered that the case involving a former Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Abdu Bulama and four others should be reassigned to another Federal High Court for retrial.
The former minister was arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), on Friday, May 29, 2018, before Justice Isa Hamman Dashen of the Federal High Court, Damaturu, Yobe State, on a seven count charge that bordered on money laundering to the tune of N450 million.
Bulama was prosecuted alongside a former Commissioner for Integrated and Rural Development in Yobe State, Mr. Mohammed Kadai, and the Deputy Coordinator of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Mr. Abba Gana Tata, Mr. Muhammad Mamu and Mr. Hassan Ibn Jaks.
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The Ondo State House of Assembly has said its Speaker, Mr Bamidele Oloyeloogun, was not invited by the Economic and Financial Crime Commission over an alleged financial fraud.
It was gathered that the Speaker, Oloyeloogun; the Clerk of the Assembly, Mr Bode Adeyelu; the Deputy Clerk, Mr Amos Olowogorioye; and the Chairman, House Committee on Tertiary Education, Mr Felemugudu Bankole; and some civil servants were invited by the anti-graft agency.
A source in the Assembly stated that they were invited over the fraud that was allegedly committed in 2019 when the lawmakers allegedly participated in a two-day seminar organised by the National Productivity Centre, Lagos, and it was later discovered that they did not attend the said seminar.
Recently, President Muhamadu Buhari appointed new service chiefs, what is your take on the appointments?
Interestingly, this set of service chiefs happen to be all officers of the 34th, 36th and 35th Regular Courses from the Nigerian Defence Academy. This is a welcome development as it is anticipated that there will be synergy and a lot of cooperation amongst the chiefs. They are amply qualified to hold their respective offices and while such appointments are at the President’s discretion, the onus of competency on the job lies on the chiefs themselves.
The Service Chiefs have assumed office at such a time that there is a lot of distrust and distress in the body polity because of crass insecurity across the entire nation. While their work seems cut out for them, it is also daunting at the same time. The security architecture of this nature is rather baffling as all efforts to contain insurgency and rout criminality seem to be failing. Just on 17 February, about 42 students were a
The Progressive Students’ Movement (PSM), has lauded the National Assembly for the speedy confirmation of Mr Abdulrasheed Bawa as Chairman of Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC).
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