The Supreme Court of Nigeria has dismissed two appeals filed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s in-law, Sani Sha’aban, against the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna State, Uba Sani in the 2023 poll and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
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One of the counts reads: “That you, Peter Nwaoboshi and Golden Touch Construction Projects Limited, between May and June, 2014, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court, did acquire a property described as Guinea House, Marina Road, Apapa, Lagos, for the sum of N805million, when you reasonably ought to have known that the sum of N322 million out of the purchase price transferred to the vendors by order of Suinming Electricals Limited formed part of the proceeds of an unlawful activity of fraud and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 15(2) (d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act of 2011(as amended) and punishable under Section (15)(3) of the same Act.”
ASHENEWS reports that a group of retired police officers has approached the National Industrial Court(NICN) with a request to jail the Inspector General of Police over contempt of court.
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