The Federal Government will on Thursday arraign suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, and his associates for N6.9 billion procurement fraud at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Abuja. Emefiele will be arraigned alongside a female CBN employee, Sa’adatu Yaro and her company, April1616 Investment …
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The Federal Government Tuesday applied to withdraw the “illegal possession of firearms” case it filed against the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele, at the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of Justice Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar told Justice …
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The battle for lawful custody of the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele will resume today at the Federal High Court in Lagos. Two fresh applications by both the banker and the Federal Government will come up for consideration. The first application – filed …
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A Federal High Court in Abuja has dismissed a request by the Department of State Services (DSS) to detain suspended Central Bank Governor Godwin Emefiele for 14 more days. Justice Hamza Muazu said that the Magistrate Court, not the High Court, has the exclusive right to grant detention orders under …
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The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has decried Tuesday’s attack on officials of the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCS) by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at the premises of the Federal High Court in Lagos. DSS operatives had assualted some officials of the NCS over disagreement about which agency …
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A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, threatened to issue a warrant of arrest against suspended Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, over his failure to appear in court to explain circumstances surrounding the 53 million dollar-judgment debt arising from the Pars Club refund. Justice Inyang Ekwo, …
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A consortium of constitutional and human right lawyers have commence committal proceedings against Director General of the State Security Service (DSS), Mr. Yusuf Magaji Bichi, at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), for allegedly violating multiple judgments and orders of court directing the release of suspended Central Bank …
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A high court of the Federal Capital Territory on Thursday issued a one-week ultimatum to the Department of State Security Service to either charge the detained suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele to Court or release him. Justice Hamza Muazu gave the order while delivering a …
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The Department of State Services (DSS) said the agency has never denied the suspended Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Godwin Emefiele access to his family and lawyers. The spokesman of the agency, Dr Peter Afunanya, disclosed this in an article titled: “The DSS operates within its mandate,” released on …
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Barrister Tope Alabi, a Lagos-based lawyer, has approached the Federal High Court in Lagos State to initiate proceedings against the governor of Central Bank of Nigeria CBN, Godwin Emefiele for allegedly disobeying the Supreme Court orders on its naira redesign policy. The lawyer made the application via a March 27 …
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