Tag: Mr Rotimi Jacobs

Alleged N1.2bn fraud: Ex-INEC chair, Maurice Iwu remanded in prison custody

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A Federal High Court, Lagos, today, ordered that the the former Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Professor Maurice Mmaduakolam Iwu, be remanded in prison custody, pending the fulfilment of bail terms granted him by the court. Justice Chuka Austine Obiozor, made the remand order after taken arguments on Professor Iwu’s bail application, filed by his lawyer, Mr. Ahmed Raji (SAN) and lawyer to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The EFCC had arraigned the former INEC chairman before the court on Thursday, on a four count-charge of money laundering to the…

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N6.9bn fraud: EFCC declares its witness ‘hostile’ in Fayose’s trial

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) today, before a Federal High Court, Lagos, declared its witness in the ongoing trial of the immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Mr. Peter Ayodele Fayose, as an ‘Hostile witness’. The EFCC declared its witness, Mr. Adewale Aladegbola, ‘hostile’ when he contradicted his extrajudicial statement to the EFCC. The witness had told the court that nothing happened on the June 16, 2014 and that the two vehicles he used to drive were grounded that day. The witness, Aladegbola, a former driver to Zenith…

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