N170m Contract Fraud: Court rejects suspect’s bid to stop police investigation
The court ruling gives the police the nod to resume prosecution of the alleged N170m FIRS contract fraud.
Bassey Udo is PREMIUM TIMES' Business & Economy Editor. He has covered finance, energy, oil, gas & extractive industries for over a decade. He is a winner of the Wole Soyinka Award for Investigative Journalism, and the Thomson Reuters Foundation (Wealth of Nations) Award for Business Reporting. Bassey is an alumnus of the U.S. International Visitors Leadership Programme. Twitter: @ba_udo
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