Lagos state house of assembly speaker, Mudashiru Obasa has been cleared of the corruption allegation levelled against him. Victor Akande, the representative of Ojo constituency 1 and chairman of the nine-man fact-finding panel which probed Obasa, said all the allegations made against the speaker were “frivolous” during the presentation of his panel’s report on Monday June 8. The panel which recommended that the clerk of the house Azeez Sanni should investigate how documents which led to the allegations against the speaker …
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A former governor of Abia State,ORJI UZOR KALU , and two others rested their case on Thursday in their 12-year trial for an alleged fraud of N7.65bn. Justice Mohammed Idris, sitting at the Federal High Court in Lagos, directed the prosecution and the defence to file their final written addresses. The judge adjourned till October 22, 2019 for the adoption of the written addresses and to take final arguments in the case. After the adoption of the final written addresses …
Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, has said it would be unfair for Nigerians to measure the current administration’s achievements in the fight against corruption by the number of convictions it has secured. The Minister said this on Monday when he featured on a live TVC News Programme. Listing what he claimed are the achievements of the administration, Mohammed said: “Under this administration, we insisted and have succeeded in ensuring that all payments and revenues are paid into the …