by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI The Senate may have concluded plans to investigate the Minister of Power, works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, over the award of 10 road and bridge contracts worth N166 billion. The Bureau Public Procurement had queried Fashola over the violation of laws guiding contract awards in Nigeria based on the manner he selected contractors for the projects. At the resumption of plenary on Wednesday, Senator Dino Melaye, who raised a point of order on alleged contracts infractions by the Ministry of Power, Works and Housing on the floor, said Nigerians had opened a ledger for thieves in power. Melaye said: “I draw the attention of the country to some infraction and corruption between the Ministry of Power and the Bureau for Public Procurement.” He alleged that the Ministry and the BPP had colluded in inflating the cost of contracts for the rehabilitation and construction of bridges and roads across the country. Melaye added: “Nigerians are watching. “They have opened a ledger for thieves in power and who are still in power.” Melaye thereafter asked the Red Chamber to give him the opportunity to bring a motion on the issue to the chamber on Thursday. The Senate is expected to debate the matter on...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC) chairman Prof Itse Sagay (SAN), yesterday faulted a statement by Kaduna Central Senator Shehu Sani, that the Buhari administration is treating corruption in government with “deodorant”. Sagay said Sani’s comments were a political statement. He accused the senator of fighting his own political “battles” which influence his views. Sani had dismissed as “false” President Muhammadu Buhari’s claims on a Senate report indicting Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, of corruption. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in its response to the report on Lawal and the representation of Magu for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) job, described Buhari’s anti-corruption war is “a ruse.” Source: The...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Dauda Lawal, an Executive Director of First Bank Plc., has accused the Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) of coercing him to return $40 million alleged to be the proceeds of a crime linked to former Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke. Mr. Dauda, through his lawyer Charles Adeogun, requested the court to order a refund of the sum under temporal forfeiture, stating that the EFCC misrepresented the document placed before Justice Muslim Hassan to obtain the order. According to the counter affidavit deposed to by the First Bank boss, he said, “That in making an application for a forfeiture order before the Federal High Court, the EFCC deliberately suppressed the material facts, despite the fact that such facts were at their disposal, as they were contained in the statement they obtained from me between 9 and 20 May, 2016 and which still remain in their custody to this day.” Mr. Adeogun claimed that for money to be forfeited to the federal government, the money must either be the proceeds of a crime or abandoned. “Two essential elements must be satisfied, which are whether the money in question is unclaimed or the funds are proceeds of an unlawful act,” he said. Arguing further, Mr. Adeogun said, “We received $25 million from the MD of Fidelity Bank under the instruction of Stanley Lawson, who is former Group Executive Director of Finance and Account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and the money has been given to Lanre Adesanya, Executive Director, Commercial and Institutional Bank, Sterling Bank Plc. This was done in clear dispensation of his duties, but the EFCC...
by Admin | Jan 26, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Justice Okunnu had on January 13, 2017 convicted Ugo-Ngali, Ontario Oil and Gas Limited and its Chairman, Mr. Walter Wagbatsoma of eight counts pressed against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes. The judge had been unable to pass the sentence on the judgment day as Ugo-Ngali slumped in court after being convicted and just before the judge could pass the sentence. The convict was subsequently rushed out of the courtroom and and taken to Havannah hospital in Surelere from where she was later moved to the intensive care unit of the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba. Ngo-Ngali came to court on Thursday straight from LUTH and on a wheel chair, with plasters on her body. In passing the sentence, Justice Okunnu rejected the plea of the convict’s lawyer, Mr. Edoka Onyeke, praying that the sentence should be non-custodian in view of his client’s health. “I have considered the plea of the defence counsel for non-custodian sentence of the 2nd defendant. I have to say that the request to grant a non-custodian sentence must be rejected and I can only exercise my discretion on the length of time the convict will spend in prison,” Justice Okunnu held. She subsequently sentenced the convict to a cumulative jail term of 69 years, which would, however, run concurrently for only 10 years. The judge said the jail term would begin to read from January 13, 2017, when Ngo-Ngali and her accomplices were pronounced convicted. Wagbatsoma, who is the first convict in the case, is said to be currently under house arrest in the United Kingdom, where he is being...
by Admin | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Following the handing over of evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to the United Kingdom Crimes Agency, Saharareporters obtained exclusive photos of two Dubai mansions linked to former Nigerian Oil Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke. The real estate properties located in Dubai’s high brow Emirates Hills marked as J5 Emirates Hills and E146 Emirates Hills are both valued at 74million Dirham ($20 million) according real estate agents in the UAE. Source:...
by Admin | Jan 25, 2017 | Blog |
Follow @NigeriaPI Attempts by Suicide Bombers to attack a mosque and a security post in Borno State were foiled by vigilant security men and volunteers. PRNigeria gathered that the incidents occurred at Usmanti and Kaleri area of Mafa Local Government Area of Borno State. The first attack occurred late midnight of Tuesday, January 24, 2017, when the suicide bomber targeted a security outpost in the area but was quickly spotted and was blown off after a shot from securitymen. No casualty was involved except the male suicide bomber. The second attempt occurred during the early morning prayer at 5:30 am today when two suicide bombers, a male, and female, attempted to enter a mosque while prayer was on. They were spotted by security volunteers (Civilian JTF) who accosted them. The terrorists detonated their explosives which killed them on the spot and one security volunteer. Two other people were injured. Meanwhile the Spokesperson of National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) in the North-East, Abdulkadir Ibrahim confirmed that rescue workers have evacuated the bodies to mortuary after the incidents.PR NIgeriaNEMA officials evacuating bodies of bombers SOURCE:...
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