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Friday Olokor, Abuja
Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday dismissed the examination fraud charges brought against a Secondary School Principal, Aregbesola Mufutau, and three others who were facing trial along with a former governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2018 election, Ademola Adeleke.
He discharged and acquitted the four persons accused of committing the alleged examination malpractices from the seven amended counts while delivering a ruling in their no-case submission.
THE PUNCH reported that the Police had in 2018 arraigned Adeleke along with Sikiru Adeleke (the Senator’s relative), Alhaji Aregbesola Mufutau (the school principal), Gbadamosi Thomas Ojo (a school Registrar), and Dare Samuel Olutope (a teacher) on four counts bordering on examination fraud.
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Sunday Aborisade, Abuja
Leaders of the Host Community of Oil Producing Areas, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to scrap the Niger Delta Development Commission and transfer all its allocations to them for effective management.
The President, National Executive of the Host Communities of Nigeria Producing Oil and Gas, High Chief Benjamin Tamaranebi, stated this while addressing journalists on the second day of the public hearing on the Petroleum Industry Bill by the Senate joint committee on petroleum upstream, downstream, and Gas.
He said with the reduction of the host community development trust fund from 10 per cent in 2008 to 2.5 per cent in 2020, PIB proposed documents would deny the people the required funds to develop their areas.