MILITARY JUDGE SUPPRESSES KHALID SHEIKH MOHAMMED’S FBI CONFESSION IN 9/11 CASE. (PHOTO).
Military judge suppresses Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s FBI confession in 9/11 case A military judge has excluded a confession that alleged Sept. 11 attacks mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave to FBI agents nearly 20 years ago, ruling that the statements were not made voluntarily. The decision is a setback for the U.S. government's long-running effort to prosecute Mohammed, who is accused of helping develop the plot to hijack planes and crash them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Mohammed remains detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alongside other defendants awaiting trial. Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, the judge overseeing the case, scheduled a June 2028 trial for Mohammed and three other defendants earlier this week. In an order issued Friday that has not been made public, Schrama barred prosecutors from using statements Mohammed made during four days of FBI questioning at Guantanamo in January 2007. Mohammed had previously been captured and held by the CIA, where he was subjec...
Today thursday,the National Universities Commission {NUC},has warned that degrees obtained from Maryam Abacha's American University of Niger Republic {MAAUN} are sub standard and will not be accepted in Nigeria.The NUC Director of Information and Public Relations,Malam Ibrahim Yakasai,handed down the warning while briefing newsmen today thursday in Abuja.He said the NUC has been inundated with inquiries from some Nigerian students who have been offered admission in MAAUN on part time with a graduation time of four semesters.He listed some of the programmes as Nursing,Medical Laboratory Science,Public Health,among others.He explained further that ''Professional programmes in science,Engineering and Health Sciences,Nursing,Medical Laboratory Science and Public Health are not offered on Part-time basis in Nigeria.More so,their graduation time is far less than the graduation time in Nigeria they admit students with HND on direct entry and they give them two years to do a degree in Nursing or Health Sciences.We wish to restate that as the only Quality Assurance Agency for universities in Nigeria,NUC is maintaining its stand that degrees from MAAUN will not be accepted in Nigeria''.He further said that the university admitted students who ordinarily would not get admission in any Nigerian tertiary institution.One more photo below. 
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