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Medic, Driver, Witness, Baker: 4 Faces Of Iraqi’s Uprising

December 10, 2019 3:35 pm

Tears roll out from behind Ayat’s oversized glasses but her hands, facing the sky, are steady. Her friends are gone, killed protesting Iraq’s government, but their “revolution” continues.

“Peace be upon you and on your two rivers, Iraq,” sings Kazem Saher as young demonstrators mourn their peers in the epicentre of the anti-regime movement in Baghdad’s Tahrir Square.

They stand sombre and motionless under the imposing “Liberty Monument,” as if mirroring the bronze figures on the long marble slab above them retelling Iraq’s tumultuous history.

Ayat, a medic, is but one of the characters in this new chapter, along …

Witness: How Dikko Converted NAF’s ₦1.2bn To Private Use

November 2, 2019 5:32 am

Hammadama Bello, a prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Umar Dikko, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja, has told the court that the defendant allegedly converted the sum of N1.2 billion, belonging Nigerian Air Force to his personal use.

Dikko is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on seven-count charge bordering on money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of N9.7 billion. Under cross-examination by the defence counsel, Dr. Onyeachi Ikpeazu, SAN, the witness who is an investigator with the …

Nigeria’s crude oil production to witness 8 percent decline

September 4, 2019 5:00 am

Nigeria’s crude oil production may witness a steady decline to approximately 7.93 per cent before 2025, a new research, conducted by U.S.-based Orbis Research has said.Being the same year Nigeria has targeted to increase oil reserve to about 40 billion and daily production to about three million barrels per day, the current revelation raises doubts over the achievement of the target.

Nigeria has been facing reduction in investments into the oil and gas sector due to unaddressed uncertainties in regulations, as well as growing security tension in the country.

The Nigerian Natural Resource Charter (NNRC), had earlier disclosed that Foreign …

How NDDC officials allegedly laundered ₦3.6b, by witness

March 28, 2019 10:34 pm

A prosecution witness from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Eyo Bassey Francis, a subway developer and contractor, yesterday told a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, how two officials working for Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Tuoyo Omotsuli and Francis Momoh, used their companies to transfer hundreds of millions of naira to his companies’ accounts for onward transmission to some beneficiaries and for conversion into dollars.

The witness, led in evidence in chief by the prosecution counsel, Ekene Iheanacho, said he embarked on an online platform for users of Internet for NDDC and also did general supply of goods …

IPOB: DSS electrocuted me, witness alleges in court

March 27, 2019 11:09 am

Chidiebere Onwudiwe, a member of the Indigenous People of Biafra, (IPOB), on Wednesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja that officials of the Department of State Services (DSS) allegedly electrocuted him while was in their custody.

Onwudiwe was testifying as a witness in the trial-within-trial ordered by the court to ascertain the veracity of his claim that DSS officials coerced him to give them a statement.

The witness who was led in evidence by his counsel, Mr Ifeanyi Ejiofor also told the court that he was locked up in an underground cell in a blindfold.
“I was brought from Port

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