Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami on Wednesday called for the approval of 2.5 per cent as requisite commission arising from recovery of off-shore stolen assets from the country.
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Malami made the pledge at the unveiling of a competition on automotive design initiated by the National Automotive Design and Development Council.
Buhari, who was represented by the Attorney General of the Federation, Justice Abubakar Malami made this known in Abuja on Saturday at the 2019 World Teachers’ Day Celebration.
However, the country is expected to deposit with the court $200 million for the judgement debt to be stayed
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sent an open letter to Abukabar Malami (SAN), Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, urging him to use his position “to without delay enter a nolle prosequi and discontinue the prosecution of the Convener of ‘RevolutionNow’
This was disclosed in a statement by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, on Tuesday
The NFIU, however, attributed it to an officer who “was obviously unacquainted with the fact that the NFIU already had access to such information through its database.”
The Buhari Media Organisatrion said this has become necessary in the light of new details about the fraudulent nature of the contract that was signed in 2010 by officials of the PDP-led government without resort to the Federal Executive Council.
Malami, who spoke with newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, said the Federal Government at a point decided to negotiate with the firm despite being aware that the contract for which a court in the United Kingdom had ordered the firm to seize Nigeria’s assets worth $9.6 billion was fraudulent
Justice Obiozor, a Professor of Law, sitting at the Federal High Court, Lagos, had in July delivered a judgment in a Freedom of Information suit number FHC/L/CS/105/19, brought by SERAP, ordering the Federal Government to disclose and publish the names of companies and the whereabouts of the contractors paid by successive governments to carry out electricity projects but disappeared with the money without executing any projects
Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), says the Federal Government is determined to ensure that every Nigerian, especially the down trodden, has unfettered access justice.
Ajulo said on Sunday that the government should initiate a legal action against South Africa predicated on Nigeria’s ratification of the protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on establishment of an African Court on Human and Peoples’ Right signed on May 29, 2004.
This unexpected behaviour cannot be justified in the face of unprovoked attacks that Nigerians received lately in the hands of their South African counterparts. These attacks must be condemned in its entirety because it is not reflective of the true spirit of Africa
Alhaji Abubakar Malami, the Attorney-General of the Federation, has cautioned Nigerians against hitting the businesses of South Africans in response to alleged xenophobic attacks against their compatriots in the former apartheid nation.
Some Civil Society Organisations in the country have warned against plans by some unpatriotic groups to blackmail the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, following the 9.6 billion dollars judgement obtained by Process and Industrial Developments Ltd (P & ID).
The Federal High Court Abuja, on Thursday, restated its earlier order over plans by the EFCC and the Attorney-General of the Federation to confiscate the assets and property belonging to the immediate-past Governor Abdulazeez Yari of Zamfara.
The meeting was said to have been held based on a directive by President Muhammadu Buhari, who earlier in the day met with Osinbajo and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami
Emefiele disclosed this on Tuesday at a media briefing in Abuja
The Federal Government says preliminary investigations have revealed local and international conspiracy in the purported gas contract leading to award of $9.6 billion judgment debt against Nigeria.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, gave the assurance on Tuesday in Abuja at a news conference on the court ruling authorising Process and Industrial Developments Limited to seize $9.6 billion in Nigerian assets.