Corruption: Kalu To Spend Christmas, New Year In Prison
Disappointment may have greeted the chief whip of the Senate, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu as the court throws out post-conviction bail.
Disappointment may have greeted the chief whip of the Senate, Dr Orji Uzor Kalu as the court throws out post-conviction bail.
A federal high court sitting in Abuja has on Thursday, 19th December 2019 ordered the final forfeiture of six properties owned by Goddy Nnadi, the General Manager (GM) (corporate services) at the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (Management) Board.
An officer serving at the Juje correctional centre has been docked for four years jail term after founding him guilty of job scam by an Abuja High Court sitting in Gwagwalada.
The immediate past Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Walter Onnoghen has been restrained from leaving the country; the order which is alleged to have come from the Presidency. Saturday Punch reported that the move may be part of another fresh probe into Onnoghen’s matter; the former CJN was convicted by the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) for non-declaration of his assets being a public officer.
Two socio-political Organizations, Ndi-Abia United and Abia Good Governance Initiative, have demanded that the FG and the EFCC should return loot recovered from the convicted, Orji Kalu back to the Abia state government since the loot initially belongs to the state.
Kaduna State High Court has directed that the Shiites leader, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky be moved to the Kaduna Prison following his lawyers complained of not given access to him by the Department of State Services (DSS).