They were arraigned on a 17-count charge bordering on unlawful retention, unlawful use and unlawful payment of money in the tune of about N4.9 billion.
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Despite the threats, persecution, violence and intimidation that my family and I have been subjected to over the last one year my opposition to the Buhari government remains implacable and unrelenting and I refuse to be silenced
The DSS has to say these outrageous things and tell these shameful lies in order to attempt to justify their illegal actions before the world. It is called disinformation and misinformation and that is their stock in trade
We have witnessed unprecedented mass murder, butchery, carnage and barbarity by well-armed and highly favoured Fulani herdsmen and ethnic militias coupled with genocide and unprecedented extra-judicial killings by our military personnel and state security forces
Yet the cause of that war and the reasons that it had to be fought in the first place are still very much with us and have not been resolved or even addressed
In his opinion, the root cause of virtually all the challenges confronting national and international community is nothing but the religious conflict amongst the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam), and that the solution to these challenges is the ultimate triumph of the Judeo-Christian over Islam
While expressing support for the anti-corruption crusade of President Muhammadu Buhari, the group advised the anti-graft agency to act within the law instead of its present tactics of presuming that all the people that served in that administration had something to hide or were corrupt
He was arrested for collecting N840 million from a slush fund provided by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke
Usman, who was the Director of Finance of the PDPPCO, was said to have been given N2.5 billion, which she disbursed to several chieftains of the PDP, including Fani-Kayode
The EFCC had on Friday invited Fani-Kayode, who served as the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation for receiving N840 million from the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman
They were massacred in the sanctity of their homes that night by members of the Nigerian Armed Forces. Up until the time that I am writing this essay not one word of regret or remorse has been expressed by President Muhammadu Buhari, the Nigerian Armed Forces or the Federal Government about the whole incident
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission said on Wednesday that it would respond to the acquittal of Femi Fani-Kayode, a…
Fani-Kayode, whose trial began in 2008 before Justice Ramat Mohammed, was arraigned by the EFCC to have laundered about N100 million while he was the Minister of Culture and Tourism and subsequently, Aviation Minister
The decision of the NWC comes a day after Fani-Kayode criticised the NWC and labelled its members as being responsible for the loss of President Goodluck Jonathan in the presidential election
According to Fani-Kayode: “From day one, all they (NEC members) did was to sulk about the fact that a Presidential Campaign Organisation had been set up and that they would not be able to have control of the campaign themselves or have access to the resources that we were given
Fani-Kayode, whose trial began in 2008 before Justice Ramat Mohammed, was accused by the EFCC of laundering about N100 million while he was the Minister of Culture and Tourism and later the Minister of Aviation
Fani-Kayode spoke at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa, Abuja shortly after the presentation of the election report by the PDPPCO to President Goodluck Jonathan
“We will do all that needs to be done to ensure that the incoming government remains on its toes and we will all do this in a very peaceful and a very honourable way
Fani-Kayode, who spoke on Wednesday, said his attacks on Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress, were not personal.
While Jega said he was miffed by the comment and does not know the source, the APC said it was a way of laying the ground for the rigging of the election by the PDP