Tag: Yahaya Bello

Alleged Money Laundering: EFCC seizes $760,000 meant for Gov. Bello’s children’s school fees 

Aminu Imam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), has seized a sum of $760,910.84 paid by Governor Yahaya Bello, of Kogi State, to the American International School, Abuja. The money was allegedly paid by the governor to American International School for his four children; however, the anti-graft agency seized the money, which was said to have constituted money laundering under Nigerian laws. Reports yesterday quoted some documents which indicated that Yahaya Bello’s nephew, Ali Bello, entered into agreement with the American International School in August, 2021, whereby the sum of $845,852.84…

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Kogi: Gov. Bello allegedly escapes 3 attempted attacks by gunmen

Aminu Imam

The Kogi State Government has raised the alarm over three alleged “assassination” attempts on the governor of the State, Yahaya Bello, saying the attempts on the governor’s life were part of a plan to portray the State unsafe ahead of the November 11 governorship election. According to a press statement, titled, ‘Assassination Attempt On The Governor’ and signed by the Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Femi Fanwo, the attackers, who were allegedly dressed in military uniforms, waylaid the governor’s convoy and started shooting sporadically at his vehicle and other…

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Kogi: ‘APC’ll retrieve senatorial seat from Natasha’ – Yahaya Bello

Aminu Imam

Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello has vowed that the All Progressives Congress, (APC) will take back the two senatorial seats it recently lost through tribunal rulings to the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP). Recall that the National and State Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Lokoja had few days ago nullified the election of the senator representing Kogi-East senatorial district in the National Assembly, Jibrin Isah-Echocho, of the APC, on the grounds that elections were cancelled in 94 polling units. The tribunal delivered the judgment in the petition filed against the…

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Kogi: Gunmen attack Gov’s convoy, injure security aides

Aminu Imam

Gunmen yesterday attacked the convoy of the Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, along the Abuja-Lokoja highway and injured his security aides. The State’s Kogi Commissioner for Information, Kingsley Fanwo, disclosed this in a statement in Lokoja. He also alleged that the gunmen were political thugs of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the State. The commissioner added that victims of the attack which occurred at about 12:30 p.m., had been taken to the hospital for medical attention. He said: “The gunmen, suspected to be political thugs of the SDP, having…

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Court orders interim forfeiture of N400m, multi-billion naira assets in Lagos, Dubai linked to Kogi Gov.

Aminu Imam

A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, has granted an order of interim forfeiture of 14 properties in Lagos, Abuja, United Arab Emirates, (UAE), linked to the Kogi State Government by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC). Justice Nicholas Oweibo granted the interim forfeiture order yesterday, following an ex parte motion by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, (SAN). Justice Oweibo also authorised the EFCC to confiscate the sum of N400million recovered from one Aminu Falala in connection with the alleged fraud. EFCC prosecutor, Oyedepo told…

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N3bn Fraud: Yahaya Bello’s nephew granted bail

Aminu Imam

..Gov”s wife remains at large The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court admitted Ali Bello, Governor Yahaya Bello’s nephew, and three others to N500 million bail each in an alleged N3 billion fraud trial. According to Justice Obiora Egwuatu’s ruling, the charges against the defendants are bailable. The judge also said the bail was to enable defendants charged with an offence to prepare adequately for their trial. Recall that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) had, on February 8, arraigned Bello alongside Abba Adauda, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, and…

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Money Laundering: EFCC arraigns Kogi Governor, Yahaya Bello’s wife, nephew over N3bn fraud

Aminu Imam

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), yesterday arraigned the Kogi governor’s wife, Rashida Bello, and his nephew, Ali Bello before the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court. The duo, alongside three others, are standing trial over an alleged N3 billion money laundering and ‘criminal misappropriation’, according to a statement by EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwajiaren. Count One of the charges reads: “That you, Ali Bello, Abba Adaudu, Yakubu Siyaka Adabenege, Iyada Sadat, Rashida Bello (at large) sometime in June, 2020 in Abuja within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court…

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2023: “Tinubu is president-in-waiting — he has touched lives across the board” – Yahaya Bello 

Aminu Imam

The Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello, has said that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, is a “president in waiting”. Bello said this yesterday, while taking questions from State House correspondents in Abuja, after his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari.  “Asíwájú Ahmed Tinubu has 21 governors — APC governors. He has touched the lives of Nigerians across the board. He is a performer; a builder. He built human beings; he built nations, and has started telling us precisely what he is going to do”, the…

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Kogi: State Govt. queries Ebira monarch over alleged disrespect to Buhari

Aminu Imam

The Kogi State Government has issued a query to the paramount traditional ruler and Ohinoyi of Ebiraland, Ado Ibrahim, for refusing to welcome the President Muhammadu Buhari, to the State. Buhari, who was in the State on December 29, 2022 to inaugurate some projects including the palace of the Ohinoyi built by Governor Yahaya Bello, was received by top government officials and foremost traditional rulers but the vice-president of Kogi State Council of Chiefs was absent. In a letter to the prominent monarch signed by the Director of Chieftaincy Affairs,…

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“Saboteurs abound in Buhari’s government”, Yahaya Bello alleges

Aminu Imam

Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, has alleged that some people and agencies are out to undermine the government of President Muhammadu Buhari. Bello, who’s recently appointed the National Youth Co-ordinator of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, described them as “Judas”, saying the saboteurs are responsible for the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Recall that ASUU has been on strike since February 14 over the federal government’s inability to meet its demands bordering on the funding of universities as well as salaries and allowances of lecturers.…

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