Justice Yusuf Birnin-Kudu of Jigawa State High Court sitting in Gumel, has sentenced a Deputy Director of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Auwal Jibrin, to six years in jail for unlawful enrichment and gratification. He was convicted alongside one Garba Ismaila who bagged seven years in jail for benefiting from the $115.010m largesse of a…
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The Jigawa Government has declared Friday, July 7, as a public holiday to enable public servants offer special prayer for President Muhammadu Buhari’s quick recovery. Alhaji Isma’il Ibrahim, the Public Relations Officer, Office of the state’s Head of Civil Service (HoS), announced this in a statement in Dutse on Thursday. Ibrahim said that the State Executive Council…
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Former Governor of Jigawa state, Sule Lamido has declared his intention to run in the 2019 presidential elections. Though the elections in more than 2 years away, Lamido has revealed that he will be contesting on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to The Guardian,the former Governor made the news known on today…
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Yesterday, we brought you an update on former Governor of Jigawa State Mr. Sule Lamido and his sons, Aminu and Mustapha seeking bail from a Federal High Court in Abuja. (click here for previous report). The update now is that they have all been grantedbail. They all were were arraigned for allegedly siphoning over N1 billion…
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Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa State, and his sons, Aminu and Mustapha are currently at the federal high court in Abuja, seeking bail. According to reports by TheCable, a federal high court sitting in Kano, remanded them in Kano prison alongside one Aminu Wada Abubakar last Thursday but learnt that they were moved to…
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We deliver the most recent information on top stories in politics, sports, current affairs, foreign news and more in this segment. Former president Olusegun Obasanjo has said that if the Goodluck Jonathan administration was keen on probing his government, it should come after him instead of people that served under him. The Action Congress of…
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