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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has filed an 11-count charge of forgery, conspiracy, and stealing from the state treasury among others, against the Speaker of the Ogun State House of Assembly, Olakunle Oluomo, and three others. In a court document obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, the anti-graft agency said the speaker and Oladayo Samuel, Adeyemo Adedeji Taiwo, and Adeyanju Nimota Amoke – the trio is still at large – laundered over N2 billion of public funds among themselves. The EFCC said the act is against the provision of sections 18 (a), 15 (2) (d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition…
Kenya’s Supreme Court has upheld the election of William Ruto as the president-elect of the country. Ruto, Kenya’s Deputy President, was declared winner of the August 9 election by the Independent and Electoral Boundaries Commission. Raila Odinga had filed a suit challenging the election results as announced by the IEBC in August. Delivering the ruling Monday morning, Chief Justice Martha Koome struck out Odinga’s suit and upheld the election of Ruto as the president-elect Kenya. “This is a unanimous decision. The petitions are hereby dismissed, as a consequence we declare the first respondent (Ruto) as president-elect,” Chief Justice Koome said.…
The United States has excluded Nigeria from its 2023 Diversity Immigrant Visa programme which is also known as the green card lottery. nigeria’s exclusion from the programme makes it eight years in a row that the US ignored the most populous African country in the world among immigrants entering via DVL. The programme is a government lottery program offering the chance to applicants from Africa and other continents of getting the United States Permanent Resident Card. About 55,000 persons apply for visas to enter the US through Diversity Visa Lottery (DVL), but the US in this year’s programme stated that…
A Plateau High Court, on Monday in Jos, discharged and acquitted Senator Jonah Jang and Mr Yususf Pam of the N6.3 billion corruption charges preferred against them by the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Jang, a former governor of Plateau and Mr Yusuf Pam, a former cashier in the office of the Secretary to the State Government, have been standing trial since May 4, 2018. The EFCC dragged the duo to court over a 17-count charge bothering on diversification and misappropriation state funds. The presiding judge, Justice Christen Dabup, who delivered the judgement, said that the court did not find…
Two Kenyan tribes are taking the UK to the European Court of Human Rights over alleged abuses in the final decades of British colonial rule. The Talai and Kipsigis want £168 billion and an apology for crimes linked to a ‘land grab’ in Kericho, a western area of Kenya which grows tea for some of the world’s biggest producers. British officials are said to have overseen the forced eviction of the clans from fertile ancestral lands to make way for plantations. The Talai claim they were forced to live in a nearby valley infested with mosquitos and tse-tse flies as…
The two Nigerian Law School students kidnapped last week by gunmen have regained their freedom after spending one week in the kidnappers’ den. It was gathered that the students may have been freed yesterday and have since resumed lectures at the Agbani Campus of the Nigerian Law School. Efforts to reach the kidnap victims proved abortive as their telephone lines were switched off. Recalls that the students were reportedly snatched by gunmen around 8 pm last Wednesday while at the Eke Agbani Market to buy foodstuff. A source had told newsmen that “Two Nigerian Law School students were kidnapped yesterday…
Raila Odinga has rejected the results of Kenya’s presidential election saying that the figures announced on Monday were “null and void”. According to the results, Mr Odinga narrowly lost to Deputy President William Ruto. Mr Odinga accused the head of the electoral body of a “blatant disregard of the constitution”. “We totally without reservation reject the presidential election results,” he said. Making his remarks in front of supporters in the capital, Nairobi, he said that there was “neither a legally elected winner nor a president-elect”. The 77-year-old long-time opposition leader was running for president for the fifth time. He has…
This is the “Japa” season for many Nigerians. “Japa” means to escape in Yoruba language. In this context, the word means to “travel out of the country”. People are “japaing” daily for many reasons, the most important of which are the declining economic situation and insecurity. However, many are unable to leave the country because they’re not aware that there are countries you can travel to as a Nigeian without getting an embassy visa. Yes…you read that right. In fact, there are more than 45 Visa on arrival, e-Visa and Visa free countries that you can travel to as a…
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William Ruto has been announced as the fifth Kenyan president by the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC). “There are no losers. The people of Kenya have won because we raised the political bar,” Al-Jazeera quoted the president-elect, who spoke after the announcement of the results on Monday. Ruto led a tight presidential race against opposition leader Raila Odinga. Chaos emerged just before the declaration when the electoral commission’s vice chair and three other commissioners told journalists they could not support the “opaque nature” of the final phase. “We cannot take ownership of the result that is going to be…