Court sentences Abdulrasheed Maina’s son to 24 years imprisonment

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday sentenced Faisal, son of the Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT), Abdulrasheed Maina, to 24 years imprisonment.Justice Okon Abang, in his judgment, held that Faisal, who was sentenced in absentia, was guilty of all the three-count charge.Justice Okon, who handed down a five-year-jail term for count one bordering on money laundering offence, sentenced Faisal to 14 years imprisonment on count two.The judge, thereafter, sentenced the son of the ex-pension reformed boss to five years prison term on count three which bordered on…

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Ex-NNPC GMD denies recovered money in his Kaduna residence was received from Bola Shagaya, Omokore, other

Ever since the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) raided the residence of Mr Andrew Yakubu, former Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC after a whistle-blow in 2017, the centre has never hold for Yakubu as he been embroiled in series of court cases afterwards.Recently, a fresh allegation emerged that sought to identify the source of the huge amount of cash found in his residence by pinning it on some names but contrarily, Mr Yakubu has denied that part of the recovered money in his Kaduna residence…

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