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Drama as UI begins fresh process to select new VC
There was heavy presence of armed security personnel at the Trenchard Hall of the University of Ibadan on Wednesday where the Senate of the university commenced a fresh selection process for a new vice chancellor of the institution.
The Senate had convened for an election of two members that will be part of the Joint Council/Senate Representatives to screen applicants for the new VC of the 72-year-old university.
The online election of the senate members to be part of the selection committee which was done electronically in September was cancelled and was asked to be conducted afresh.
This came just as four members of the governing council reportedly staged a walkout from the meeting held at the International Conference Centre.
Profs Ademola Aremu, Abel Olorunnisola, Mande Samaila and Dr Jaju Muhammad reportedly walked out of the meeting after about five and a half hours of the proceedings.
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, had ordered the selection of a new VC to replace Prof Idowu Olayinka whose tenure expires on November 30 should start afresh.
The minister had directed all 18 applicants for the post be invited and screened again following the protests against the first process by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union.
The two candidates that emerged winners in the first election won again on Wednesday in the election conducted manually, it was learnt.
Six professors, who announced their withdrawal from the election, said the notice was too.
Profs Peter Olapegba, Ayoola and Moshood Akinsola participated in the election.
Olapegba who had scored 362 in the previous online voting scored 302 in the manual poll; Prof Ezekiel Ayoola, who also scored 352 votes in the online election polled 299 votes while Akinsola who scored 20 votes before polled 17 in the manual election on Wednesday.
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BREAKING : EFCC declares Yahaya Bello wanted, seeks information on his whereabout
BREAKING : EFCC declares Yahaya Bello wanted, seeks information on his whereabout
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday declared former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, wanted.
The anti-graft agency said Bello is wanted for alleged offences relating to economic and financial crimes to the tune of N80.2 billion.
The EFCC called on Nigerians with information as to his whereabout to report immediately to the Commission or the nearest Police Station.
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“The public is hereby notified that YAHAYA ADOZA BELLO (former Governor of Kogi State), whose photograph appears above is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in connection with alleged case of Money Laundering to the tune of N80,246,470,089.88 (Eighty Billion, Two Hundred and Forty Six Million, Four Hundred and Seventy Thousand and Eighty Nine Naira, Eighty Eight Kobo).
Bello, 48-year old Ebiraman, is a native of Okenne Local Government of Kogi State. His last known address is: 9, Benghazi Street, Wuse Zone 4, Abuja.
Anybody with useful information as to his whereabouts should please contact the Commission in its lbadan, Enugu, Kano, Lagos, Gombe, Port Harcourt and Abuja offices or through these numbers 09-9044751-3, 08093322644, 08183322644, 07026350721-3, 0706350724-5; its e-mail address: info@efccnigeria.org or the nearest Police Station and other security agencies, ” a public notice issued by the EFCC read.
BREAKING : EFCC declares Yahaya Bello wanted, seeks information on his whereabout
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BREAKING: Submit yourself for probe, FG tells Ex-Kogi gov, Yahaya Bello
BREAKING: Submit yourself for probe, FG tells Ex-Kogi gov, Yahaya Bello
The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Prince Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, has called on the immediate-past governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to submit himself for probe.
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APC: Reprieve for Ganduje, Federal High Court stops his suspension
APC: Reprieve for Ganduje, Federal High Court stops his suspension
The former governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje, has secured a court order from a Federal High Court in Kano halting his purported suspension as the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
The order is sequel to an ex parte motion filed by Ganduje seeking to enforce his fundamental right to fair hearing.
According to the certified true copy of the order released on Thursday to journalists, the respondents in the application are the Police, Department of State Services DSS, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps NSCDC and nine other individuals.
Recall the APC executives in Ganduje ward of Dawakin Tofa local government area of Kano State had on April 16, announced the suspension of Ganduje over alleged corruption.
The decision was however quashed by both the State Working Committee of the APC in Kano and the National Working Committee NWC.
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A judge of the Kano State High Court, Usman Na’abba, had however affirmed the suspension and warned Ganduje against parading himself as head of the NWC and National Chairman of the APC.
However, in the ex parte order delivered on Wednesday by the Federal High Court and made available to journalists on Thursday, A.M Liman, a judge of the Federal High Court in Kano said the suspension should not be implemented until the case is heard and determined.
“That all the Respondents, their servants, agents or privies are hereby restrained from Implementing and/or giving effect to the purported decision reached during the purported emergency meeting of the alleged Executive members of APC Ganduje Ward, held at Ganduje Ward of Dawakin Tofa Local.
“That all the parties are hereby mandated to maintain status quo before the purported emergency meeting of the alleged executive members of APC Ganduje Ward, and to stay action in respect of this matter pending the hearing and determination of the substantive application,” Liman said.
April 30 has been fixed to hear Ganduje’s appeal.
APC: Reprieve for Ganduje, Federal High Court stops his suspension
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