This was contained in a statement issued by its Publicity Secretary, Olawale Sadare, on Friday in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital
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Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke quashed the charge for being incompetent.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on Jan. 16, 2018, first arraigned Akinjide.
Akinjide is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission alongside Senator Ayo Adeseun and a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain, Olarenwaju Otiti.
Ize-Iyamu recently defected to the All Progressives Congress
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday granted an application for overseas travel by a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, facing charges of N650 million fraud.
Absence of Justice Muslim Hassan of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Monday stalled the trial of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, facing N650 million fraud charge.
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday dismissed applications filed by Senator Ayo Adeseun and Olanrewaju Otiti seeking transfer of a criminal charge against them to the Ibadan Division of the court.
The real meaning and cost of the “Changing the Change” is that if they win the next election, they will not take us back to where we were in 2015, they will mostly reverse the progress the APC has brought to the nation
Akinjide is standing trial alongside a People’s Democratic Party chieftain, Olarenwaju Otti, and Ayo Adeseun.
Otti, who is standing trial on a N650 million fraud charge, is being prosecuted alongside a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, and Senator Ayo Adeseun, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Justice Muslim Hassan gave the order for the trial following objections raised by the defence counsel, who had argued that statements purportedly made by the accused were obtained under duress, threat and inducement.
Olarenwaju is standing trial alongside a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide, over a N650 million fraud.
Akinjide is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission along with a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is said to be “at large”.
The judge, however, ruled that trial would continue on March 9 in Lagos.
The ex-Minister was charged along with former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who is said to be at large; a former Senator, Ayo Adeseun; and a Peoples Democratic Party stalwart, Chief Olarenwaju Otiti
The party chieftains and the youth were unanimous in their call to the ruling All Progressives Congress to start preparing its handover note for a new PDP government in 2019
Akinjide’s lawyer, Bolaji Ayorinde (SAN), told a Federal High Court that they were “in the process of engaging in out-of-court
Akinjide was re-arraigned before Justice Muslim Hassan, on a 24-count charge, following the transfer of the case file by the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court Justice Adamu Kafarati.
Akinjide was said to have made the statement when he met a team of BringBackOurGirls campaigners, led by a former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwezili, on behalf of President Goodluck Jonathan last week