BREAKING: Court grantes bail to Femi Fani-Kayode in sum of N250m with two sureties

The Federal High Court in Lagos has granted bail to Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode in the sum of N250m with two sureties in like sum. He is to deposit his international passport with the court.

Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison- Madueke ally Jide Omokore arraigned by EFCC

Former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison- Madueke ally Jide Omokore being arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for money laundering at FederalHigh Court in Abuja today

Omokore and Andrew Yakubu, a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, are being arraigned by the EFCC before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja on four counts of Money Laundering.

TROOPS AMBUSH BOKO HARAM TERRORISTS IN KUKAWA - COL. USMAN

At the early hours of today, troops of 118 Task Force Battalion, 8 Task Force Division sprang a surprised ambush on some elements of Boko Haram terrorists along Gerere Junction, Kukawa Local Government Area, on the northern part of Borno State.

The Boko Haram terrorists were suspected to be fleeing from the advancing troops of 119 Task Force Battalion presently mopping the general area of Kangarwa in Kukawa Local Government Area.

PHOTONEWS: President Buhari hosts his Classmates in Daura, Katsina State

President Muhammadu Buhari receives his Classmates in the 1953 set of Katsina Middle School in Daura Katsina on 3rd July 2016.

PRESS RELEASE: MILITARY ELITES HAVE A ROLE IN BUILDING A NEW NATION - PRESIDENT BUHARI

*Soldiers ought to also be public intellectuals

Our country at this time needs a new group of elites consisting of professionals in the military who will join in building a new nation built on high values of integrity, justice and diligence, according to President Muhammadu Buhari.

In a speech delivered over the weekend by Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Jaji, in Kaduna state, the President said "the Armed Forces are probably the most visible symbols of national unity and cohesion," in the country. Addressing the audience made up of top military chiefs including service chiefs and new graduates of the College's Senior Course 38, the President told the military, "this is why the responsibility for fighting against all forms of ethnic and religious prejudices is yours."

RE: The Dubai Landlord : We need hardcore evidence against Gen Buratai

The termination of the corrupt regime of President Goodluck Jonathan by the Nigerian electorate and the installation of opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari created opportunity for the interrogation of the artificial paradox of a continental military superpower, with an unrivaled record of successful peacekeeping across Africa , fighting a losing territorial war with homegrown insurgents.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has been investigating the military industrial complex that denied Nigerian troops war supplies and made billions of naira at the expense of 20,000 Nigerian lives and 3 million refugees.

The probe revealed that a syndicate of senior military officers who were responsible for procuring ammo for the prosecution of the war against terror in the North East betrayed their country and their colleagues at the war front. They awarded fake contracts to themselves and their cronies, under-supplied in the few instances where they bothered to deliver at all, and fattened their pockets. This resulted in a situation where Nigerian soldiers were compelled to face one of the deadliest terrorist groups in the world empty-handed. That ironical, uneven match between the government force and the guerrilla fighters favored the better-equipped underdog. Thus, the terrorists decimated and maimed hundreds of our troops. They sacked villages, took women and girls into sex slavery, and hoisted their flags. They declared, at some point, 20,000 square miles of Nigerian soil, a space the size of Belgium, their jihadist caliphate.

Reforming our Legal and Penal System - Faseyiku

If Nigeria must work, it will only do so if we have a legal and penal system that works. I love the on-going war against corruption and have high hopes that the administration will not be distracted. But we will be undone if we do not address the institutional robustness of the legal and penal system in Nigeria. The framework is currently too weak to sustain us and cope with the myriad of issues that are emerging daily. At the moment, lawyers take us for a ride and that must stop. In the UK, when you have a QC, I mean a single one, arguing your case, it can never get better. You hardly have a situation where 13 QCs (as in the case of PMB's certificate) or 60 QCs as in the Ricky Tarfa matter lining up behind an accussed. A case that one QC cannot argue successfully, a hundred are unlikely to do so. 

Therefore, if we need to pay judges as much as we pay the nation's number one citizen and ringfence the pensions payment system for retired judges to pevent them becoming "legal consultants" so be it. Indeed, we must bar them from any engagement with the bar in any form or shape once they retire from service. We must also make it possible for them to face criminal prosecution for proven cases of misconduct rather than simply retiring the errant ones. It has to be a combination of the stick and the carrot. Another way is to make it possible for them to serve on the bench for life as is the practice in the US. That way, the prospect of them becoming conduits of corruption will be curtailed. Retirement should be completely voluntary or based on health reasons.

And You Call Them Innocent: Again, Metuh Offers to Refund N400 Million

So The reports says the immediate past spokesperson of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh, has again offered to refund to the Nigerian government, the N400 million he received from the office of the National Security Adviser in the build up to the 2015 general election. 

Mr. Metuh, who is facing trial at the Federal High, had said he did not know that the money given to him by the ONSA, when Sambo Dasuki was NSA, was meant for arms procurement. He said former President Goodluck Jonathan gave him an assignment and ordered for the release of the funds to him.

And do we now called them (all Looters) innocent? Yeah, right! Metuh innocently stole N400 Million that belongs to about 175 million Nigerian, because there was free money flying around Nigeria and now he is innocently returning the N400 Million he stole. In Stan's world, all you need to do is innocently steal some money in Nigeria and you can innocently return the money until you're proven guilty.

PHOTONEWS: NEW IG VISITS UGBORODO , GBARAMATU IN WARRI SOUTH WEST, DELTA STATE

The New Acting IG of police in company of the Akulagba of warri Kingdom chief Ayiri Emami an APC stalwart pay a visit to Ugborodo and Gbaramatu Community of warri South west LGA.

The IGP Idris Ibrahim stated that his purpose of visit is to ensure that there is peace and togetherness in all the communities within the riverine Areas.

Forgery Suit: Sen Ita Enang Says Presidency not assembling witnesses against Saraki, Ekweremadu

The presidency on Friday clarified that its officials were not listed as witnesses to deliberately testify against the senate presiding officers and the two top National Assembly management officials currently facing prosecution over the alleged forgery of the Senate Standing Rules 2011.


The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly matters, (Senate), Senator Ita Enang, who made the clarification at a news conference in Abuja, said top presidency officials, including himself, listed as prosecution witnesses, were going to court as members of the seventh senate.