Bashir Yuguda, the former Minister of Finance under President Goodluck Jonathan administration has been appointed Honorary Special Adviser to the new governor of Zamfara, Alhaji Bello Matawalle.
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Justice Hussein Baba-Yusuf of an FCT High Court, on Monday, fixed June 11 for trial to begin for former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd) and Ambassador Bashir Yuguda in the alleged misappropriation of N19. 4 billion arms funds.
An FCT High Court on Wednesday rejected an application by former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki , praying for an indefinite adjournment, pending the compliance of a bail order by the Federal Government.
An FCT High on Tuesday rejected an application filed by former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, seeking leave of court to call independent stakeholders to intervene in his matter.
Former Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Sokoto State, Alhaji Manir Dan-iya, has emerged winner of the People’s Democratic Party governorship primary election in the state.
Standing trial along with Dasuki are: a former minister Alhaji Bashir Yuguda, former Director of Finance and Administration in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Shuaibu Salisu, a former governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, his son, Sagir and their family company Dalhatu Investment Limited.
They were arraigned earlier on a 22-count charge bordering on diversion, conspiracy, bribery, abuse of office and criminal breach of trust of about N19.4 billion
Dasuki and the five accused, who are facing a 22-count criminal charge bordering on allegations of diversion, misappropriation and breach of trust in respect of N19.4 billion, brought against them by the Federal Government, were granted the bail by Justice Peter Affen
The N100 million was said to be part of the money Yuguda received from a former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, which has become a source of litigation and probe by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
George said contrary to a report that Yuguda gave him N100 million as head of the Contact and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South West, only $30,000 was given to 18 of them
Dasuki, who was moved from his house on Tuesday where he had been under house arrest to the office of the DSS, is being investigated for his alleged role in a $2.9 billion arms deal
Dasuki had been placed under house arrest in his Abuja home since November 4, 2015 by the DSS
The commission also arrested the son of a former Governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa, and the son of a former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Dr. Haliru Bello, who is also a former Minister of Defence in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan
Yuguda announced this in Abuja when he addressed newsmen on the outcome of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting
According to him, by 2010, government borrowing has risen to N1.36 trillion from around N530 billion in 2009
Briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, the Minister of State for Finance, Bashir Yuguda, said FEC ratified the President’s anticipatory approval to obtain $100 million credit from the French Development Agency in support of Lagos Integrated Urban Development Project (Eko-UP)
“NNPC has paid the sum of N776 million it owed the Federation Account and remitted an additional amount of N4.4 billion, totaling N5.195 billion
Yuguda made the plea in Abuja while speaking with newsmen on the sidelines of the Federal Account Allocation Committee meeting
He said the distributable statutory revenue for the month was N427.6 billion, comprising N35.5 billion from SURE-P and N6.3 billion refunded by Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation to the Federal Government
Yuguda made this known in Abuja when he briefed newsmen on the outcome of the Federation Accounts Allocation Committee meeting