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Over 12,000 inmates freed in six years – Malami
Mr Malami says that decongesting the prisons was top on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s to-do list upon assumption of office ...
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Mr Malami says that decongesting the prisons was top on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s to-do list upon assumption of office ...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has investigated 31 state governors for corruption and taken 11 of them to ...
The letter of their release was sent to the command by the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy Committee on Monday.
On Tuesday, the National Industrial Court ordered the Taraba government to pay Mr Nyame and other judgement creditors in the ...
PREMIUM TIMES reported how President Buhari approved the pardons of Messrs Dariye and Nyame, who had been convicted of stealing ...
PREMIUM TIMES reported how President Buhari approved the pardons of Messrs Dariye and Nyame, who had been convicted of stealing ...
"President would at the same time have come across as insensitive and cruel to most people were he to have ...
Clearly, the Dariye/Nyame pardon dramatises the fact that regimes upbraid the venality of their predecessors, only for them to succumb ...
On several occasions, the Buhari-led administration has been criticised for granting soft landing to corrupt public officials.
The Council of State at its meeting presided over by Mr Buhari on Thursday granted state pardon to former governors ...
By granting them pardon, insiders told PREMIUM TIMES, Mr Buhari — who rode to power on the campaign of fighting ...
Joshua Dariye and Jolly Nyame, convicted for corruption, were pardoned on health and age grounds when they still have several ...
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There are indications that former governors of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, and former governor of Plateau State, Joshua Dariye, were ...
The apex court discharged Mr Dariye of criminal misappropriation, but affirmed his sentence for criminal breach of trust, which carries ...
A five-member panel of the apex court said it found no reason to set-aside concurrent judgements of both the trial ...
A total of 189 convictions were recorded in 2017.
The former Taraba governor is serving a jail term for corruption.
In the past week, Nigeria witnessed many politicians using words as attack and defence weapons, from Bukola Saraki to Adams ...
Says corruption has serious effect on larger society
Mr Nyame was earlier jailed 14 years by a High court.
The judge advises Mr Nyame on what to do.
Their corruption trials started in 2007 before their conviction 11 years later in 2018.
After over a decade of legal battles, Joshua Dariye was jailed 14 years
The former governor is being prosecuted by the EFCC.
He was the first governor of Taraba State after its creation from old Gongola State.