The FOI request, signed by the coalition’s Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, said the Bureau should update it with developments on the PanamaPapers scandal investigations
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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos
The senator, who said he was away on oversight duties when the amendment was made, stressed that he was completely opposed to the decision
Saraki is contending in the appeal that he was not invited by the Code of Conduct Bureau to make Clarification on his asset declaration form before charges were filed against him at the tribunal
In a petition to the Bureau’s chairman and signed by the coalition’s Chairman, Olanrewaju Suraju, the CSNAC said the alleged linkage of Mark from the widely reported massive global leak of files belonging to Mossack Fonseca, a law firm in Panama, to at least eight offshore shell companies, while holding public office, is a violation of the CCB Act
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions on Monday summoned CCT Chairman, Justice Danladi Umar, over allegations of corruption against him
My position, therefore, is that these amendments to both the CCB & T Act and the ACJA Act amount (as seen above) not only strange in law but remains morally a legislative desecration of the hallowed red chambers and ethically a parliamentary sacrilege of all known urbane tenets of a civil society. The timing seems injurious, and the acts seem self-seeking and self-regarding
The court, presided over by Justice Abdul Kafarati, said Saraki must face his trial by the CCT over allegations of false declaration of assets
Though a medical doctor like his father, trained at University of London from 1982 to 1987, his intelligence, diligence, hardwork and prudence in the management of resources endeared him to his father at a very young age
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission witness was led in evidence by the anti-graft commission’s Counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN)
This followed a ruling on Thursday by the CCT dismissing Saraki’s application to quash the charges.
In a judgement delivered early on Friday, the apex court held that Saraki’s suit lacked merit and as such he should return to the Tribunal to answer to the charges against him
The judgment will be delivered by a seven-man panel of Justices of the apex court, led by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed
Buratai gave the directive on Wednesday during a conference with Principal Staff Officers and Directors serving at the Army Headquarters in Abuja
The undertaking was given on Thursday by the counsel to the Federal Government, Rotimi Jacob (SAN) at the hearing of the case instituted by Saraki at the Supreme Court against his trial by the CCT
The Tribunal had slammed Saraki with a 13-count charge bordering largely on his alleged failure to declare assets he acquired while in office as governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011
Saraki was summoned by the CCBT for prosecution over alleged failure to declare assets he allegedly acquired as Governor of Kwara State between 2003 and 2011
This is inspite of the threat by the governor to head to court to seek redress over the story
According to the newspaper, El-Rufai declared ownership of 40 mansions, with most of them located in Abuja
Shehu said this statement was warranted by the need to clarify some suggestions that the President and the Vice President may not, after all, declare their assets publicly