The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had charged him alongside former Minister of Finance, Nenadi Usman.
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The court also discharged and acquitted on the same charge, Mansur Ahmad, the Kano State Campaign Coordinator to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
The court also discharged and acquitted on the same charge, Mansur Ahmad, the Kano State Campaign Coordinator to former President Goodluck Jonathan.
A prosecution witness, Seun Shuaibu, on Wednesday told a Federal High Court in Lagos that a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, and some others transferred N350 million to former Governor Achike Udenwa of Imo in 2015.
The police on Friday arraigned DSP Inagozie Godwin, who allegedly shot and killed Anita Akapson, a niece of Senator Nenadi Usman (former Minister of Finance) in an FCT High Court in Zuba.
Usman, a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, made the allegation in a petition to the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, signed by the lawyer to her family, Kayode Ajulo.
The Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has ordered the detention and investigation of policemen involved in the incident that led to the death of Anita Akapson.
Another former Minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, who is also on the Federal Government’s travel ban list, made this known in a WhatsApp message to The Eagle Online.
Upon his assumption of office in Nigeria in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari, recognizing this fact, decided that he would focus on the abuse of campaign financing and tackle electoral corruption. The way he has gone about it and the conduct of his own political party, the All Progressives Congress, should be a useful global study in how not to tackle the challenge of campaign finance
Danjuma, who is charged alongside with the ministers, is said to be hospitalised in Kaduna.
The money was said to be part of the N23 billion allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, through the then Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organisation, Senator Nenadi Usman
Idowu was the first witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the ongoing trial of Sani-Kayode, the then Director for Media and Publicity of Jonathan’s Campaign Organisation.
Fani-Kayode, who was also Chairman, Media and Publicity of the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Organisation, in the suit, is charged alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman.
Usman is charged with a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, and a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Yusuf Danjuma
They were re-arraigned on Monday
They were re-arraigned on Monday
Fani-Kayode is charged alongside a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman; a former National Chairman of the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, Yusuf Danjuma; as well as a company, Jointrust Dimensions Nigeria Limited
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had arraigned the two on a 17-count charge of laundering about N4.6 billion
Her application, however, could not be heard because the judge ruled he would first consider a pending application challenging the court’s jurisdiction
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had arraigned Fani-Kayode and a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, on a 17-count charge of laundering N4.6 billion