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US Set To Review Classified 9/11 Documents For Publication

August 11, 2021 1:08 am

High-ranking US officials have vowed to review classified documents related to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks to see which could be made public — a recurring demand of some victims’ relatives.

The FBI said in a letter to the US attorney for the southern district of New York that it ‘has decided to review’ its prior privilege to not disclose certain sensitive documents and will ‘identify additional information appropriate for disclosure.’

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation “will disclose such information on a rolling basis as expeditiously as possible,” the letter read.

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Perjury: Groups Challenge Omo-Agege To Show Documents

January 23, 2020 5:41 am

Guardians of Democracy and Development; Partners for Legislative Agenda for Nigeria; Empowerment for Unemployed Youth Initiative; and a coalition of civil society and youth groups in Nigeria have challenged the Senate Deputy President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, to present court papers absolving him of the allegations of perjury.

The coalition, in a statement yesterday by its Convener, Solomon Adodo, said it has also submitted a petition to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the National Security Adviser; and the Chief of Staff to the President, insisting that it would only rest when the right thing is done.

The groups had earlier …

INEC boss ignores tribunal as commission tenders documents

July 19, 2019 12:58 am

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday tendered the documents required by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, at the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal.

The tribunal had on Wednesday subpoenaed the INEC boss, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu and the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Zamfara State to appear with the documents relating to the February 23, 2019 poll. But Yakubu did not appear before the tribunal yesterday.

The order followed an allegation by Chief Chris Uche (SAN), the counsel to the petitioners, the PDP and Atiku, that the respondents were frustrating the matter.

Consequently, the petitioners filed …