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Fraud: EFCC Threatens To Involve Military In Yahaya Bello’s Arrest

Wendy R.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has vowed to arrest the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, and bring him before the Federal High Court Abuja for arraignment to answer to the charges preferred against him. This came on the heels of Bello’s counsel, Abdulwahab Muhammed, SAN, refusing to be served in the place of his client who is on the run from the EFCC. The anti-graft agency, while addressing a Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday through its team of lawyers led by Kemi Pinheiro, SAN, stressed that operatives would execute the arrest warrant against the former…

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Reps Threaten CBN Gov’s Arrest Over REMITA Leakages

Wendy R.

The House of Representatives Public Accounts Committee, on Tuesday, summoned the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, to unfailingly appear before it on March 5, 2024 over issues relating to alleged leakages with the e-payment solution platform, REMITA. The Reps fumed that Cardoso’s failure to appear before the committee during previous sittings “has greatly stalled this committee’s investigative process on revenue leakages through the REMITA platform.” “The Public Accounts Committee has the power to summon any person in Nigeria to give evidence, produce any document in his possession and under his control. “Failure to comply with this…

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Police Arrest Three Bandits, Rescue Nine Kidnap Victims In Niger State

Wendy R.

Operatives of the Niger State Police Command have arrested three suspected bandits and rescued nine kidnapped victims. The State Commissioner of Police, CP Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, disclosed this during his maiden press briefing on Wednesday, December 20, 2023. According to the CP, the bandits were arrested based on credible intelligence received that they were planning to establish a camp around Maje-Suleja/Kuchinbuyi area of Abuja. “The Crack Squad of the Command with the aid of Technical Intelligence arrested one Adamu Abdullahi 25yrs ‘m’ of Kuchinbuyi area on 21/11/2023,” the CP stated. “During interrogation, he confessed to the crime of kidnapping within…