Tag: Nyame
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Kuje: Pardoned Dariye, Nyame ‘missing’ after attack on Kuje facility
Some high profile inmates at the Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja may have escaped Tuesday night’s attacks on the facility by some gunmen. The attacks, which lasted some hours, were said to have been resisted by military personnel and prison guards on duty. Gunmen bombarded the facility with bombs and explosives on Tuesday night at about…
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Dariye, Nyame pardon will not derail anti-corruption war – Presidency
The Presidency has assured Nigerians that the granting of pardon to two former Governors, Joshua Dariye, Jolly Nyame — and 157 others by the Council of State will not derail the ongoing anti-corruption fight of the Muhammadu Buhari administration. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, gave the assurance in…
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BREAKING: Supreme Court affirms conviction of Taraba ex-gov, Nyame
The Supreme Court on Friday upheld the conviction of ex-Governor of Taraba, Jolly Nyame. Recall that on Nov. 17, 2019, the Court of Appeal also upheld the conviction of Nyame. The court, in two unanimous judgments by two panels, held that Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu,…
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14 years imprisonment: Appeal the judgement, Taraba residents tell ex-Gov Nyame
Following the judgement of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja which sentenced former Governor Jolly Nyame of Taraba State to 14 years’ imprisonment, residents of Taraba have urged him to appeal the judgement. Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory sitting in Gudu, Abuja, had, on Wednesday, found the…
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[BREAKING]N1.6bn Fraud: Ex-Taraba State governor, Jolly Nyame to spend 14 years in prison
Justice Adebukola Banjoko of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu, Abuja, on Wednesday sentenced a former Governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, to 14-year imprisonment for criminal breach of trust by misappropriating the sum of N1.64bn preferred against him by the EFCC. The ex-governor, whose name goes with the appellation of…
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N1.64bn fraud: Nyame didn’t receive N100m in my presence, witness tells court
A defence witness, Philip Akolo, who was an orderly to former Taraba governor, Jolly Nyame, on Tuesday told an FCT High Court Gudu, that he never saw him receive N100m. Akolo said this during cross examination by the EFCC prosecutor, Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN). Jacobs had said that former Taraba Government House Accountant, Mr Abdurahman…