Nigerian Senate Orders Unfreezing of Former First Lady's Accounts
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has described the methods used in freezing the accounts as arbitrary, insisting that the anti-graft agency failed to comply with due process in closing the accounts.
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Nigeria:
EFCC's Move to Seize Patience Jonathan's Property Stalled
This Day, 20 October 2017
Effort by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to commence process of seizing property belonging to former First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, was thursday stalled… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Court Declines EFCC's Request to Seize Patience Jonathan's Property
Guardian, 20 October 2017
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday, failed to convince the Federal High Court, Abuja to hear its ex-parte motion seeking an order to seize the Plot 1758… Read more »
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Nigeria:
EFCC Seeks Forfeiture of Patience Jonathan's Abuja Property
Leadership, 20 October 2017
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has filed an application before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, seeking the forfeiture of… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Senate Committee Asks Stanbic, Zenith Banks to Unfreeze Patience Jonathan's Accounts
This Day, 19 October 2017
The Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions has ordered Stanbic IBTC Bank and Zenith Bank Plc to unfreeze the accounts domiciled in their banks linked to former… Read more »
Patience Jonathan.
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Nigeria:
Senate Orders Unfreezing of Patience Jonathan's Accounts
Leadership, 19 October 2017
Despite assurances and pledges Senate had made in the past to support the ongoing fight against corruption in the country, senate committee investigating the petitions against the… Read more »
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Nigeria:
Senate Orders Banks to Unfreeze Patience Jonathan's Accounts
Vanguard, 19 October 2017
The Senate, yesterday, ordered banks to, as a matter of urgency, unfreeze accounts belonging to former First Lady, Mrs Patience Jonathan. Read more »
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Nigeria:
Senate Committee Asks Banks to Unfreeze Patience Jonathan's Accounts
Premium Times, 19 October 2017
A former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, on Wednesday, got a reprieve as the Senate Committee investigating the petitions against the freezing of her accounts, asked that they… Read more »
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Former first lady, Patience Jonathan, has accused the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of targeting her family, and urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene. Patience ... Read more »