Author: Ibrahim Abubakar

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has opposed an application by a former Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for the release of his passport to facilitate an overseas medical trip. Defence counsel, Abdulakeem Labi-Lawal, had filed an affidavit seeking the release of Emefiele’s passport to enable him to travel to the United Kingdom for medical treatments which was objected to by the EFCC. Monday’s affidavit by the defence and the counter-affidavit by the prosecution was in furtherance of the ones made earlier on the matter on June 25, 2024, by both teams. A statement on Monday by the…

THE truism, “two wrongs do not make a right”, appeared justified recently when an incident in an Abuja church culminated into a grievous comedy of errors. A lady, Ms. Veronica Nnenna Anyim, ruffled the feathers in the social media when she claimed that she obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Law from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). She made the testimony during a well-attended church service at the popular Dunamis International Gospel Centre in Abuja. As it turned out, Anyim had only made a big mistake because the NOUN does not offer a “BSc in Law” but…