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Real Reason Why I Won’t Probe Past Govts If Elected – Obi

Real Reason Why I Won’t Probe Past Govts If Elected – Obi

July 9, 2022 6:22 am

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, has revealed why his administration will not carry out a witch hunt of previous governments if Nigerians elect him into office in the 2023 presidential election.

Obi made this disclosure on Friday while speaking in an interview with journalists shortly after unveiling an educationist, Dr. Yusuf Datti Baba-Ahmed, as his running mate on Friday.

‘As for probing the past government, let me tell you: you see me argue that you can’t close your shop and be chasing thieves, those who only look at yesterday and today will miss …

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Adamawa: Gov Fintiri Vows To Probe Bindow, Others

January 22, 2020 12:26 pm
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri of Adamawa State on Thursday, responded to his Supreme Court victory, declaring that he would probe his predecessors and those who have administered the 21 local government areas.

“I am going to probe past administrations that wrecked the state, from the state down to local council level,” the governor told the crowd of supporters during a reception for him following his return from Abuja after the Wednesday Supreme Court judgement that upheld his election.

The governor, who was again approached by newsmen at Ribasu Square immediately after his speech at the podium, told the newsmen, “I thank

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EFCC Set To Probe Peter Odili After 13-Years

January 8, 2020 8:52 pm

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it will reopen the investigation of Peter Odili, former governor of Rivers state.

In 2007, Odili got a court injunction preventing the EFCC from investigating or arresting him.

The court order also restrained the anti-graft agency from probing the finances of the Rivers state government.

EFCC has Named Rivers State as Number two Headquarters of Money Laundering.

Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the EFCC, on a visit to Port Harcourt on Tuesday said investigation into allegations of money laundering against the former governor would be reopened.

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‘ICC Prosecutor Drops Alleged UK War Crimes In Iraq’

ICC To Probe Nigerian Army Over Attacks On IPOB, Shiites

January 8, 2020 8:53 am

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it has extended its preliminary examinations on possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in Nigeria to cover the clashes between Nigerian soldiers and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), a body of Shi’ite Muslims in the country, as well as the clashes between the Nigerian soldiers and the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB).

In its 2019 edition of the annual Report of Preliminary Examination Activities issued by the office of its Prosecutor headed by Mrs. Fatou Bensouda, ICC noted that the Office of the ICC Prosecutor on November 12, 2015 …

EFCC Told To Probe Governors’ Wives

December 31, 2019 7:50 am
The Writers Against AIDS has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the financial transactions of state agencies for the control of HIV/AIDS mostly headed by governors’ wives.

This was contained in a statement on Monday by the National Coordinator, Wole Adedoyin.

WAAIDS said the funds, which ought to have been used in taking care of people living with AIDS, were either diverted into unknown accounts for selfish purposes.

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In some states, Adedoyin noted, the chairmanship and membership of the agency for the control of HIV/AIDS was

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APC Seeks Probe Of Clash Between Protesting Groups

December 25, 2019 7:35 am

Following last Monday’s clash between pro-All Progressives Congress (APC) and some civil society organisations demanding the release of the convener of #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore, other detainees, Agba Jalingo and Dadiyata, the ruling party has demanded a thorough investigation into the incident to ensure adequate actions are taken against anyone found to have overstepped his bounds

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) had gathered at the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) office in Maitama, Abuja, to present a letter to the chairman of the Commission when the miscreants allegedly invaded the venue and attacked the protesters.

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ICC To Probe ‘War Crimes’ In Palestinian Territories

December 20, 2019 4:02 pm

The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor said Friday she wanted t open a full investigation into alleged war crimes in the Palestinian territories, sparking a furious reaction from Israel.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the decision made the Hague-based court, which Israel has refused to sign up to since its creation in 2002, a “political tool” against the Jewish state.

The Palestinians welcomed the move by the ICC as a “long overdue step” following a nearly five-year preliminary probe by the prosecutor into the situation since the 2014 war in Gaza.

“I am satisfied that there is a reasonable …

Lyon To Dickson: I’ll Probe Your Administration

December 5, 2019 3:27 am

The governor-elect of Bayelsa State, Chief David Lyon, has inaugurated a 59-member Transition Council set up by the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to scrutinise the accounts of the outgoing Governor Seriake Dickson’s administration. He said that was needed for appropriate action when he takes over on February 14, 2020.

Lyon, while inaugurating the transition committee at the party secretariat in Yenagoa yesterday, urged it to develop and identify failures of the outgoing administration, and also proffer possible solutions to tackle the economic, security, developmental, infrastructural and the several other areas that often affected the machinery of …

Lega Serie A Chief Resigns Amid Election Probe

November 19, 2019 4:54 pm

Lega Serie A president Gaetano Micciche announced on Tuesday he was stepping down from his position amid a probe into his election in March 2018.

Genoa owner Enrico Preziosi’s claims that there had been irregularities concerning Micciche’s election prompted an Italian Football Federation (FIGC) investigation.

“I wish to announce my immediate resignation as president of Lega Serie A,” Micciche said in a statement.

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“The disclosures published today and related to the closure of the investigation on my appointment 20 months ago and its possible outcome are unacceptable and required me …

Probe Storm Water Project, Group Dares Obaseki

November 19, 2019 3:08 pm

A group, Edo Transparency Initiative (ETI), yesterday, dared Governor Godwin Obaseki to carry out his threat to probe the multi-billion naira Benin storm water project, commenced by the administration of former governor Adams Oshiomhole.

The group, in statement by its coordinator, Felix Osahon, urged the governor to institute the probe and make its findings public so that Edo people would know the truth of the matter.

Minister of State for Budget and National Planning and former commissioner for Environment and Public Utilities in the state, Clem Agba, had during his courtesy call on the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, …

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Trump Attacks US Diplomat As She Testifies In Probe

November 15, 2019 2:40 pm

  • ‘I can’t speak to what the president is trying to do but I think the effect is to be intimidating,’ Marie Yovanovitch said.

President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted an attack against the former US ambassador to Ukraine while she was in the middle of testifying in his impeachment probe, prompting her to complain she was being intimidated.

Trump’s furious tweet came as Marie Yovanovitch testified in the House of Representatives about her abrupt firing from her post in Ukraine following an alleged smear campaign led by the president’s personal attorney, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.

“Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch

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Police Launch Assault Probe After HK Minister Injured

November 15, 2019 10:50 am

Police in London on Friday said they were investigating an assault after a Hong Kong minister fell to the ground as she was jostled by demonstrators.

Justice secretary Teresa Cheng had been due to give a lecture at the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb) in Bloomsbury Square, central London, on Thursday evening.

But the CIArb said the event was cancelled because “whilst entering the building (Cheng) was assaulted by a crowd”. It added: “As a result, she sustained an injury to her arm.”

Video of the incident circulating on social media

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