About 100 lawyers, under the umbrella body of Lawyers United for Equality and Human Rights Advocacy, protested to the office of the AGF to demand the investigation and prosecution of persons found to have been sponsoring insurgency in the country
Browsing: Abubakar Malami
A group of legal practitioners, Lawyers United for Equality and Human Rights Advocacy, in a letter to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), asked the Federal Government to avoid the grave mistake of government in the past that led to the intermittent resurrection of the Niger Delta militancy
Isah explained that the Minister, who heads the Committee, in his speech recounted that AMCON was established by the Act of the National Assembly to prevent the collapse of the Nigerian banking sector following the banking crisis as a result of the Bank Consolidation Reforms in 2008
Prior to President Bubari resuming office in May of last year impunity was one of those issues that plagued the land. The thing with the impunity brand of impunity that pervaded that era was that we were not even aware of it any longer – it became the norm so people scarcely knew to react to it
Buhari, who was represented by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo during the inauguration at the Presidential Villa on Friday in Abuja, expressed his administration’s commitment to tackle corruption, other economic crimes and terrorism
But the allegations against Mr Abubakar are as long as the 210 count charges that frustrated prosecution counsels will bring against an upright person just to increase the possibility of securing a guilty verdict
Malami said: “The capacity of Boko Haram to hold territory has been totally decimated. Our focus now is on dealing with the remnants of their forces and re-focusing on the unfortunate humanitarian challenge caused by their activities
This advice to the President was given by Philip Agbese, the National Coordinator of a group, Stand Up Nigeria, during a press conference in Abuja on Sunday
At a time the country is acutely feeling the pinch from years of successive leadership-sanctioned theft of national resources and the populace hurting from learning to live in an economy that is not powered by corruption, the demand for Malami’s sack is comical to the point of offering comic relief
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja
Adejumo said the NLC, TUC, their agents, employees or servants have been restrained from carrying out the threat to shutdown the country in a nationwide strike
Malami had gone to court to challenge the strike being planned by the NLC and Trade Union Congress to protest the increase in the pump price of petrol
It was the EFCC, under the Chairmanship of Chief (Mrs) Farida Waziri, OON that initiated these settlements and nominated Mr. Godwin Obla, SAN as the Lawyer to represent their interest in the negotiations that were conducted under auspices of the Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice
Some mansions belonging to some former Politically Exposed Persons and their cronies or fronts may also be seized, a source told the highly authoritative newspaper on Monday
The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Communications, Gilbert Nnaji, on Thursday demanded to know the account into which the money was paid at a meeting with officials of MTN, the Accountant General of the Federation and other stakeholders in Abuja
Ajulo, who addressed a press conference in Abuja, is seeking a Fiat from the AGF to prosecute them for Contempt of Court
The former AGF, however, accused former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the late General Sani Abacha family of being behind his ordeal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, few months after his exit from office
This was just at the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, called for the collaboration of all relevant agencies of the Federal Government for the war against corruption and other related crimes to succeed
Malami made the disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja during an interactive session with members of the House of Representatives Committee on Justice
The APC said the latest petition was informed by failure of the Office of the Minister of Justice to act on its earlier petition of February 13, 2015 demanding a probe into the audio tape detailing what it termed acts of treason by some Peoples Democratic Party leaders in cahoots with some military officers to cause a change of government in Ekit State through means other than as prescribed by the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria.