Mohammed Dangana, a senior official of the Economic Community of West African States Commission, on Monday agreed to forfeit N245 million asset following his decision to enter a plea bargain to end his ongoing trial.
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A Federal High Court on Friday in Abuja dismissed the suit filed by George Uboh, Chairman Whistleblowers Network, against the Inspector-General of Police, Mohammed Adamu; Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Dr. Godwin Emefiele; and billionaire businessman, Ned Nwoko.
Metuh was jailed on Tuesday by Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday filed an amended three-count charge against Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed, former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team.
An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s star witness on Monday said he received several telephone calls from different people asking him to change the statement he made with the anti-graft agency against Gabriel Suswam, former Governor of Benue State.
Senior Inspector of Correctional Service, S. Ugochukwu, who was at the entrance of Justice Abang’s Court Room 6, was instructed by the Judge to step into the court room.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Goji on December 16, 2019 told the court how Faisal Maina, son of Abdulrasheed Maina, withdrew N58 million from a commercial bank in the country
The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, adjourned the hearing on Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-Pension Reform chairman’s application for variation of bail conditions, till January 14.
Justice Okon Abang of the Abuja Federal High Court on Monday overruled Abdulrasheed Maina’s plea to reject documented evidence presented against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reform Task Team and his son, Faisal, are to remain in Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja, till January 2020.
An EFCC operative, Mohammed Goji, on Wednesday, revealed how Abdulrasheed Maina, ex-Pension Reform boss, illegally acquired several property in the name of his son, Faisal.
Akinwande Adewale Akinseye, a Guarantee Trust Bank staff, on Tuesday, told James Nolan, the British national and a director in the Process and Industrial Development Nigeria Ltd., that his bank supplied the statements of accounts of the company to EFCC on demand.
Justice Okon Abang, who made this known, said the development was to allow Nolan’s counsel, Paul Erokoro, SAN, study the counter-affidavit filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s lawyer, Ekele Iheanacho, in opposition to the Briton’s plea.
Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Thursday reprimanded Adeola Adedipe, counsel to the second defendant in the trial of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, for telling the court that its ruling on the case would be thrown out at the Court of Appeal if it refuses to allow a thorough medical examination on Maina’s state of health.
Justice Abang adjourned the matter after examination and cross-examination of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s first prosecution witness, Clara-Whyte Mshelia, by counsel to both parties were completed.
Justice Okon Abang, who granted the bail in an application filed by Nolan, ordered that the applicant must produce “a surety in like sum, who must be a Nigerian and a serving senator not standing any criminal trial in any court in Nigeria.
Counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Mohammed Abubakar, made this known to Justice Okon Abang at the continuation of the trial of the former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team.
The trial of former Chairman, Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina charged with 12 counts bordering on “money laundering, operating fictitious bank accounts and fraud”, was stalled on Tuesday, due to his ill-health.
Justice Okon Abang, who granted the relief, adjourned the continuation of trial until November 6.
Justice Okon Abang fixed the date, after taking arguments from the defence and prosecution counsel.