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The trial of former Chief of AirStaff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu rtd., and 10 others was on Friday stalled before aFederal High Court in Lagos, following the demand of a witness’ international passport.Amosun is charged alongsidetwo other officers of the Air Force – Air Vice Marshal Jacob Adigun and Air Cdre Gbadebo Olugbenga.Also charged are  Delfina Oil and Gas Ltd, Mcallan Oil and Gas Ltd, Hebron Housing and Properties Company Ltd,  Trapezites BDC, and Fonds and Pricey Ltd.The accused are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Mohammed Idris.They were arraigned on June 26 and had pleaded not guiltyto the charges.The judge had then granted them bail in the sum of N500 million each with two suretieseach in like sum.On Friday, trial of the accusedwas stalled due to the demand by one of the defence counsel, Mr Norrison Quakers (SAN) that a prosecution witness, one Mojeed Olatunji should produce his international passport.Olatunji...

Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo has said that Buhari’s entire APC government is under threat ofcorruption.VP Yemi Osinbajo and founder of ABUAD, Aare Afe BabalolaHe said the Federal Government would employ a new strategy to fight the dangerous dimension that corruption appears to be assuming in the country.Osinbajo made the declaration, in an address delivered at the 7th Founders Day and 4th convocation Ceremony of Afe Babalola University of Ado Ekiti(ABUAD) on Friday.According to him, higher institutions, such as ABUAD are great places to be used, ina national re-orientation programme being contemplated to fight the menace.He said none of the arms of government is immune from the scourge of corruption.He however said the Buhari government is ready to combat it, right from the school level.“All institutions of government are under the threat of corruption“You will please recall that President Muhammadu Buhari, had himself warned on several occassions that if we don’t fight corruption, c...

Victor Moses is finally happy at Chelsea after the arrival of Antonio Conte as manager, revealing former boss Jose Mourinho never spoke to him face to face.Mourinho returns to StamfordBridge – where he won three Premier League titles in two spells at the club – as Manchester United manager, and is expected to receive a warm welcome from many fans and former players.However there will be no love lost between him and Nigeria international Moses, who wasfrozen out by Mourinho after being sent on loan to Liverpool in 2013, when the Portuguese returned to Chelsea.Moses told ESPN: ‘He never spoke to me. I thought in my head, “He’s got his own players already.”‘I think we chatted a couple oftimes on the phone – he asked if I was alright at Liverpool, but that was it.’Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea last December – having sent Moses out on loan again at the start of last season, this time to West Ham United – and former Italy boss Conte was appointed in the summer.Since the Italian’s arrival, ...

GoTV General Manager, Salesand Distribution, Akinolu Salu has debunked the notion that GoTV was developed and designed to edge Startimes out of the market, saying theiraim all along is to bring digital TV to the common man on the street.“Competition is a very good thing but we didn’t move in that mood. The essence of GoTv is to ensure that the lastman standing in Nigeria can be able to afford digital television. So, it is not just about competition but more about our people. We want to keep our people educated, informed and entertained. It’s not fair taking away entertainment from the man on the street,” he explained.Daddy Showkey, mr Ibu, Aki and Pawpaw and Gotv officialsSpeaking on the fifth anniversary celebration, Mr Salu said there are many reasons for them to roll out drums to celebrate, going by the success they have achieved over the last five years.“Despite the fact that the country is going through a very challenging time, we have kept our prices. We havefurther gone ahead t...

By Emman Ovuakporie and Johnbosco AgbakwuruAPPARENTLY disturbed by the story that he has withdrawn his suit against theSpeaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, ousted former Chairman, House Committee on Appropriation, AbdulmuninJibrin yesterday denied it, declaring that it was a calculated misrepresentation of facts.In a statement issued on his behalf by his counsel, Chukwuma Nwachukwu, he said that the true position of the matter was deliberately altered.The statement stated that:”It has come to our attention the circulating misrepresentation of facts that our client, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin has withdrawn his suit filed vide FHC/ABJ/CS/595/16 against the Speaker, House of Representatives and 14 others wherein we sought for injunctive reliefs restraining the the Defendants from suspending the Plaintiff, Honourable Abdulmumin Jibrin.“This is not the true position of things and the said untrue information is calculated to misinform and in fact disappoint the teeming gen...

By Emmanuel Aziken, Political EditorFinance minister Kemi Adeosun has dismissed insinuations of President Muhammadu Buhari being a hater of women even as she Friday said that the administration has pumped inthe last four months pumped an unprecedented N720 billion to boost infrastructure.Mrs. Adeosun who disowned dates attributed to her on when the nation would come out of recession said economic growth would depend on global oil prices and how the economy responds to the spending stimulus fashioned out by theadministration. Among the spending plans she enumerated was the Affordable Housing Programme aimed at boosting home ownership in the country. She said the contractors for the programme moved to site this week.Mrs. Adeosun spoke on a BBCprogramme Friday evening.Asked if the president was a misogynist, she said:Kemi Adeosun“I think the fact that he has appointed women into very senior positions says his viewabout women. I work with him very closely and I don’t see any misogynistic ...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) once again lived up to its billing of being used by the current administration for the sinister purposes of silencing the opposition under the guise of fighting corruption.As expected and as earlier stated in his press statement, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode had already raised the alarm that he was going to be rearrestedby the EFCC as the organisation whose operations have become easily predictable have graduated from being an investigative body meant to serve the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians to a vindictive institution willing to do the biddings of some vengeful cabal whose existence even the wife of the president confirmed recently.Ex-Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode arriving the EFCC Abuja office on Monday, May 9, 2016for questioningLet it be on record that Chief Femi Fani-Kayode was held for 67 days in EFCC custody who used questionable orders from magistrates to perpetuate their illegality.While in their custody he suffered al...