Tag: Looters List
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Looters list: Court dismisses Nenadi Usman’s contempt application against Lai Mohammed
Justice Mohammed Aikawa of a Federal High Court, Lagos, on Friday dismissed a contempt application filed by a former Minister of State for Finance, Nenadi Usman, against Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, over inclusion of her name in the ‘looters’ list. Mrs Usman is standing trial on allegations of money laundering alongside a former Minister…
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Looters’ list not a violation of your rights, Court tells Dokpesi
The federal capital territory (FCT) high court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has declared that the looters’ list released by the minister of information, Lai Mohammed, is not a violation of the rights of those named. In a ruling on Tuesday, the presiding judge, Justice Olukayode Adeniyi, said the suit filed by Raymond Dokpesi, a…
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PDP chieftain, Dokpesi’s U.S. visa revoked over looters list
Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain Raymond Dokpesi’s United States (U.S.)visa has ben revoked because his name is on the looters list released by the Federal Government, the media mogul has said. He has sued Minister of Information and Culture Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who announced the list, seeking payment of N5billion damages. No date has been…
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Demand looters’ list from Buhari, SERAP tells Trump
A human rights advocacy group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has urged the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to demand from President Muhammadu Buhari a comprehensive list of looters of Nigeria’s treasury. It urged Trump to ban anyone whose name appears on the list from entering America. SERAP said this in an open…
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Court bars FG from publishing Secondus’s name on looters list
The Rivers State High Court has barred the Federal Government, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, and other government agencies from further the name of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Uche Secondus on their looters’ list. The state Chief Judge, A. I . Iyayi- Lamikanra, gave the order in Port…
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Looters list: FG, APC desperate to blackmail me – Secondus
The National Chairman of the opposition, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said the President Muhammadu Buhari led federal government and ruling all progressives congress are desperate to frame him (Secondus) so as to silence him. In a statement signed by his media adviser, Ike Abonyi, Mr Secondus said blackmail and intimidation of the opposition by…
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Looters’ Lists: APC, PDP Playing Games with the Lives of Nigerians – NIM
…A case for the People’s Third Force The Grand National Coalition of the Nigeria Intervention Movement, NIM is awed and bewildered by the tragicomedy of accusations and counter accusations of looting the country’s treasury between the ruling All Progressive Congress, APC government and its counterparts in the People’s Democratic Party ,PDP, which was in government…
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Looters’ list: FG compiles fresh names of former governors, ministers, others
Indications emerged on Saturday that the Federal Government may release fresh names of people who allegedly looted Nigeria’s treasury under the former ruling party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Investigations revealed that the fresh list might contain names of those who have yet to be arraigned in courts for corruption. The list may also include names…
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Buhari’s government not sincere with looters’ list – Okowa
Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta State has urged the federal government to include names of present and previous political office-holders, irrespective of political parties, who looted public funds, in the looters’ list. Okowa made the call at the inauguration of Episcopal House, Chapel of Resurrection Conference Hall and other residential blocks of the Anglican Communion,…
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Looters list: Gov. Wike berates Buhari’s government
Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that Nigerians are experiencing the height of irresponsibility in governance with the APC Federal Government refusal to obey the rule of law. The governor also declared that INEC as presently constituted is setting the stage for the rigging of the 2019 General Election. He noted that Rivers…