Tag: Metuh
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Destruction of evidence: Metuh knows fate on May 31
An FCT High Court on Monday fixed May 31 for ruling on the no-case submission filed by Olisa Metuh, a former PDP spokesperson, accused of destruction of evidence. Mr Metuh was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on a two-count charge bordering on alleged destruction of evidence. The case which was before…
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Alleged interference in Metuh’s trial: Call your appointees to order, PDP tells Buhari
The People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to call to order, some of his appointees over their continued interference in its former National Publicity Secretary’s trial. Also to be cautioned for sustained meddling in the trial of the former publicity scribe, Chief Olisa Metuh, according to the party, are some officials of…
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Just in: Metuh appears in court, begs for medical treatment abroad
A former National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Olisa Metuh, on Wednesday asked the Federal High Court, Abuja to order the release of his international passport to enable him travel overseas for medical treatment. This is the third time Metuh is asking the court to release his international passport for him to seek medical attention…
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Alleged 400m fraud: Metuh has case to answer – Supreme Court
The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Olisa Metuh, has a case to answer in the money laundering charges. Metuh was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for laundering N400m and $2m respectively. A five-man panel of the Supreme Court led…
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Alleged N400m fraud: Court adjourns Metuh’s trial after arriving for trial in ambulance
The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court on Monday agreed to adjourn the trial of former Peoples Democratic Party spokesperson, Olisa Metuh, on health grounds. The court presided over by Justice Okon Abang granted the adjournment after seeing Metuh arrive the court on a stretcher on Monday. He is being charged with corruption for…
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BREAKING: Drama as Metuh appears in court on stretcher
There was a mild drama at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday after former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, appeared on a stretcher for his ongoing trial in respect of the N400m he allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser in 2014. The trial…
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Metuh admitted in intensive care of NAUTH, referred to UNTH
A former Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, has been admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi. Metu, who is facing corruption charge, could not appear for his trial at an Abuja High Court on January 22 on health grounds. The Chief Medical Director…
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Arms deal: ill-health stalls Metuh’s trial
The trial of former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Olisa Metuh, was stalled on Monday at the Federal High Court, Abuja, due to his ill–health. Metuh, who is standing trial alongside his company, Destra Investment Limited, was not in court, as Mr Onyechi Ikpeazu (SAN), his counsel told the court that…
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Subpoena: I won’t testify until Jonathan appears in court – Metuh
A former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Olisa Metuh, insisted before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday that whether or not he would testify or call additional witnesses in his ongoing trial would be dependent on what former President Goodluck Jonathan would tell the court in respect of the…
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Court declines Metuh’s request to order Daura’s arrest
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday declined a request by a former spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, that it orders the arrest of the Director-General of the Department of State Service, Lawal Daura, for failing to produce Sambo Dasuk, in court. Justice Okon Abang had on October 25 directed former…
