By Mo Isa During an interactive session with media executives on Tuesday, Ola Olukoyede, the chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), disclosed that a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, allegedly moved a sum of $720,000 from the state’s treasury a few days before leaving office in January. Olukoyede revealed that…
By Mo Isa The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, 14 March 2024, dragged former Kogi State Governor, Mr Yahaya Bello before Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Maitama, Abuja for alleged N84 billion money laundering offences, alongside his nephew Ali Bello, Dauda Sulaiman and Abdulsalam Hudu. CONVERSEER learned that the EFCC is prosecuting the quartet…
By Mo Isa The Nigeria Police Force, Kogi State Command has confirmed the carting away of Kogi’s election petitions from the tribunal secretary. According to the police, the gunmen attacked the secretary of the state governorship election Tribunal, Mr David Umar Mike on Monday in Lokoja and made away with sensitive petition documents on the…
By Joe Udo In the heat of the Saturday, November 11, 2023 Governorship elections, 14 persons have been arrested for alleged vote buying in Imo, Kogi and Bayelsa states. CONVERSEER learned that the amount recovered from them was in the tune of N11,040,000 (N11m). They were arrested by the operatives of the Economic and Financial…
