EL-RUFAI TO REMAIN IN CUSTODY AS COURT ADJOURNS BAIL APPLICATION TO APRIL 14.(PHOTO).

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 El-Rufai to remain in custody as court adjourns bail application to April 14 Justice Rilwanu Aikawa of a Federal High Court in Kaduna has adjourned the hearing of the bail application filed by former Kaduna State governor, Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai, to April 14th. The bail application of the former governor came up before the court today. April 1. The court adjourned the case after listening to arguments from both the defence and prosecution  El-Rufai was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on a 10-count charge bordering on alleged conversion of public property and money laundering. He pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The court ordered that he remain in ICPC custody pending the hearing of his bail application on the fixed date. The former governor arrived at the court premises around 9:00 a.m. in a black Hilux vehicle, accompanied by DSS officials.

MOU BETWEEN NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ARTS & CULTURE & BANK OF INDUSTRY WILL CREATE 200,000 JOBS-ALH. LAI MOHAMMED SAID TODAY.{PHOTOS}.

Image may contain: 3 people, people sitting and text                  Alhaji Lai Mohammed,has said the MoU between the National Council for Arts and Culture {NCAC} and the Bank of Industry {BoI},which makes available 300 million Naira loan for stakeholders in the Creative Industry,will create 200,000 jobs in the Sector.The Minister said this in Abuja today friday when the Director General of the Council,Otunba Olusegun Runsewe,presented to him the MoU,which was signed earlier in the day.''I have been reliably informed that top on the list of the benefits that will accrue from this landmark MoU is that it will create over 200,000 jobs for the sector.This is epochal,and it is in line with one of the cardinal programmes of this administration,which is job creation and empowerment.''-Lai Mohammed.Alhaji Mohammed said the MoU will equally enhance the capacity of producers of cultural products and services to work towards attaining the standard of modern practice in the packaging of their cultural products,to enable them compete favourably at the global markets and earn the nation's Artists a decent living.The NCAC DG acknowledged the leadership role of the Minister,particularly in leveraging on the unique potential of the creative Industry to drive the diversification of the economy away fro oil. ''Today,we have come to make a history-making presentation to the Honourable Minister.Today happens to be a day that will create a change and we are going to tell our story the way it should have been told some feww years ago,''-Otunba.The Minister used the occasion to decorate some journalists with a special pn=in with the inscription: ''Our Culture,Our Pride'',as part of a conscious strategy to mobilise the media to promote the nation's Creative Industry.One more photo below.
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