The Kogi State High Court has awarded N1billion damages against the lawmaker representing Kogi Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, in a defamation suit filed by the immediate past governor of the state, Alhaji Yahaya Bello. Delivering judgement in the suit marked, “HCL/16/2023”, the court held...
•Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, who is answering to a 19-count money laundering charge, today, challenged the admissibility of a fresh evidence the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) sought to tender against him. The anti-graft agency had, at the resumed proceedings of th...
•EFCC logo and Bello A former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, has been granted permission by the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform the 2026 lesser Hajj. In granting the application, Justice Emeka Nwite ordered that Bello’s international passport, which has been in the custody of the […]
•Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo A prosecution witness on Thursday told the Federal High Court in Abuja how a consultant allegedly received over ₦1.1 billion in commission within just eight months from contracts linked to the administration of former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello. Testifying before Justice Emeka Nwite, the EFCC witness said the...
•Former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo The Court of Appeal in Lagos has restored the interim forfeiture order obtained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to seize 14 properties allegedly linked to ex-Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello. Justice Yargata Nimpar who read the unanimous judgment which was delivere...
•Yahaya Bello and EFCC logo The Federal High Court in Abuja, today, declined a request by the immediate-past Governor of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, seeking for the release of his international passport to travel abroad for medicare. Justice Emeka Nwite, while delivering a ruling at the resumed hearing of the alleged money laundering case preferred ag...
•Former Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello Justice Maryann Anenih of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, has fixed July 17 for ruling on an application filed by the immediate past governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, seeking to travel out of the country, on health grounds. At the resumed hearing, his counsel and […]
•Former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello The immediate past Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, today urged the Federal High Court in Abuja to release his international passport to enable him to travel abroad for a medical check-up. Bello is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on allegations of money laundering ...
•Former Governor Yahaya Bello and EFCC office The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing alleged money laundering trial of the immediate past Governor of Kogi State, has refuted, strongly, claims by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s lawyer that he was harassed by security aides of the former governor. Mshelia Arhyel Bata, a com...
•Ex-Governor Yahaya Bello A witness, Nicholas Ojehomon, has testified before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, how former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, paid his children’s school fees in dollars and in advance until their graduation. Ojehomon, an internal auditor in the American International School in Abuja, is the th...
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