Tag: Boss Mustapha

Emefiele, others forged ex-Pres. Buhari’s signature to steal $6.2m -Ex-SSG alleges

Wura Kelani, Crime Reporter

The immediate-past Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, said on Tuesday that $6.2m was released from the Central Bank of Nigeria in February 2023 using a forged document. The money, he said, was released for foreign observers ahead of the 2023 general elections. Mustapha stated this when he appeared as the fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing fraud trial of the immediate-past CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, before the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Maitama, Abuja. The EFCC arraigned Emefiele on amended 20 counts bordering on forgery,…

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FG announces new COVID-19 lockdown, restricts social gathering to 50

Jide Ige

The Federal Government has announced a partial lockdown shutting down bars, night clubs and recreational centres in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus in the country. The government also reintroduced COVID-19 restrictions across all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory with a nationwide 12am to 4am curfew as part of new efforts to curtail the further spread of the pandemic. The Head of Technical Secretariat of the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19, Dr Mukhtar Mohammed, said the new directive takes effect by midnight of Tuesday. He said…

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