Nigeria: Alleged U.S.$1.5 Billion World Cup Fraud - Lulu, Ogunjobi, Others Lose Bid to Stop Trial

23 February 2016

Justice E. S. Chukwu of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, on Monday dismissed a "no-case-submission" filed by Sani Lulu, a former President of the Nigeria Football Federation in the corruption charge brought against him and three others by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

Others are Amanze Uchegbulam, a former first vice president of NFF; Taiwo Ogunjobi, a former executive committee member and NFF former secretary-general, Bolaji Ojo-Oba.

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