Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who is serving a six-month suspension from the legislative house, on Thursday applauded the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for rejecting a petition to recall her as the lawmaker representing Kogi Central district. The female lawmaker, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Politics Today, said that the electoral umpire should have thrown out the petition long before …

A Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday admitted in evidence receipts of school fees paid to the American International School, Abuja (AISA) in favour of the children of the former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello. The receipts were among other documents tendered by the prosecution at the resumed hearing in the trial of the ex-governor on an N80.2 billion …

Former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has been released from Kuje Custodial Centre after meeting the bail conditions set by the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja. This was confirmed by the spokesperson for the Nigerian Correctional Service, FCT Command, Adamu Duza, to newsmen on Friday evening. Duza said, “Yahaya Bello has been released after meeting the bail …

Unless he is able to perfect his bail application, former Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello will be remanded at Kuje Correctional Centre, Abuja until 29 January 2025 the next hearing of his N110 billion money laundering trial resumes. This follows the ruling on Tuesday by a judge of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in Maitama, …

The above question arose out of one’s curiosity based on the way the detained former governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, has conducted himself since his ordeal with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) came into the public knowledge around April this year. In April this year, Yahaya Bello was said to have been invited by the EFCC …

And it came to pass that on the day of Our Lord, Tuesday, 26 November 2024 the former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Belo, earlier declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was arrested and detained by the Commission at its headquarters in Abuja. The EFCC and Bello have engaged in a cat and mouse game …

A former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has again honoured the invitation of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged misappropriation of funds. It was gathered that the embattled former governor went to the anti-graft agency office on Tuesday morning in the company of his lawyers. His visit to the commission follows the Supreme Court judgment which dismissed …

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released on bail two persons who were listed as defendants in the fresh 16-count charge it filed against former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. The commission, which confirmed the development when the case came up before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, at Maitama, on Thursday, however, complained …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) Youth Vanguard has warned a former Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello to stop disgracing the party over his running battle with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a statement on Sunday by the Coordinator of APC Youth Vanguard, Mr. Rasheed Sanusi, the group wondered why the former governor “has been evading …

A Federal High Court in Abuja has fixed 21 January for ruling on a request by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arraign and try in absentia former Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello for alleged money laundering charge pending against him. In the charge, the EFCC accused Bello, among others, of laundering N80,246,470,088.88 belonging to Kogi State. Justice …