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Blaming opposition for hunger is ‘delusion’, Atiku tells Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has accused President Bola Tinubu of blaming the opposition for the country’s economic hardship. He said the President was trying to evade responsibility for his administration’s policies. Tinubu had earlier on Saturday blamed his political opponents for hunger and poverty in the country while speaking at the All Progressives Congress presidential campaign flag-off in Kaduna. “I hear my opponent talking about hunger, poverty. Who created it? They did! They created the hunger, they created the poverty. We are trying to eradicate it,” the President said. Atiku, the presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, said Nigerians were entitled to demand answers from the APC-led government over rising living costs, poverty, insecurity and questions surrounding public expenditure. In a statement issued on Saturday by the Director of Strategic Communication of the ADC Presidential Ca...

ALLEGED N80.2BN FRAUD: EFCC PRESENTS FIRST WITNESS AGAINST YAHAYA BELLO. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE.


 Alleged N80.2bn Fraud:  EFCC Presents First Witness against Yahaya Bello


The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, February 24, 2025 presented its first witness against a former governor of Kogi State,  Yahaya Bello.


Bello is facing a 19-count charge by the EFCC bordering on criminal breach of trust and money laundering to the tune of N80.2bn contrary to Section 18(a) and punishable under Section 15(3) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011 (as amended).


The witness, Segun Joseph Abeleke, General Manager of EFAB Properties Limited appeared before Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. 


Adeleke, while being cross- examined by counsel to the EFCC,  Kemi Pinheiro,  SAN,  told the court that he was  into real estate and development of turnkey  projects in places like Maitama, Asokoro, Wuse, and some other locations in Abuja. 


He told the court that, sometime in 2020, while he was in his office, his Chairman,  Chief Dr. Fabian Nwora sent for him and introduced him to a young man by the name Shehu Bello on a particular property in question.


Details later.

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