Following the Supreme Court’s ruling today on Senate President, Bukola Saraki’s appeal to stop his trial with the Code of Conduct Tribunal, the Senate President has expressed his disappointment over the court’s decision. In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Alhaji Yusuph Olaniyonu, Saraki said: “After listening to the ruling…
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The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, challenging the validity of his trial on charges of assets declaration preferred against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). A seven-man panel of the apex court presided over by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Mahmud Mohammed, unanimously ruled…
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President Muhammadu Buhari today at the State house in Abuja granted Senate President, Bukola Saraki audience. In other news, the Supreme court had earlier today picked February 5th, 2016 as the date to to rule on the appeal the Senate President filed against the judgment of the Court of Appeal in Abuja which affirmed the…
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Lawyers representing Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki in his trial at the Code of Conduct Tribunal in Abuja have staged a walkout following the refusal of the Chairman of the tribunal, Mr. Umar Danladi, to suspend proceedings pending the determination of Saraki’s appeal at the Supreme Court on the tribunal’s jurisdiction to try him. The…
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Come November 9, former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe will be arraigned before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) over bribery allegations and alleged false declaration of assets. Here is how Vanguard is reporting it: The four-count charge filed on behalf of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) by Peter Danladi…
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