There are indications that the Federal Government may have concluded arrangements to drag some suspected terrorist financiers to court. The case is expected to come up before Justice Anwuli Chikere of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday this week. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, had in May announced…
The forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission has been completed and the report submitted to the Federal Government. The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio, summited the report to the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami. During the presentation; Senator Akpabio said the NDDC forensic audit covered a…
The Department of State Services has release eight of twelve persons who were arrested during a raid at the residence of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, on July 1, 2021. Pelumi Olajengbesi – the lawyer who has been battling the DSS in court, confirmed the release of the eight persons after sixty-one days in detention. Addressing newsmen…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has activated the Freedom of Information Act to request details of four hundred persons the Federal Government claims are to face trial for alleged funding of terrorism in Nigeria. Falana made the request to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, nearly three months after he made the revelation in…
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, has denied advising President Muhammadu Buhari to suspend the 1999 Constitution. Malami made the denial in reaction to an allegedly leaked memo from his office to the Presidency, calling for the declaration of martial law. However; his media adviser, Umar Gwandu, explained in a statement…
The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, has been under heavy criticism over his condemnation of decisions of the governors of the seventeen southern states. Members of the Southern Governors Forum held a meeting in Asaba, Delta State, on Tuesday last week, after which they came out with a ten-point resolution. The…