The Federal Government,
yesterday, failed to open its case against former Minister of Niger
Delta Affairs, Elder Godsday Orubebe, who is facing corruption charges
before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT.
Orubebe was in the charge, alleged to have falsely declared his assets while in office as a public officer. Orubebe docked
Government alleged that he failed to declare his ownership of two choice property in Abuja.
More so, he was accused of collecting bribe of N70 million from one
Pastor Jonathan Alota, the owner of a company, Chemtronics Nigeria
Limited.
The charge against him was initiated by the Code of Conduct Bureau,
CCB, through the office of the Attorney General of the Federation .
Government had on November 26, 2015, when the matter came up for
trial, applied for an adjournment to enable it to amend the charge
against Orubebe.
However, when the matter came up yesterday, another lawyer who
appeared for the government, Mr. E.A Orji, told the tribunal that
Orubebe’s case-file had been transferred to the Department of Public
Prosecution, DPP, at the Federal Ministry of Justice.
The systems used included the Direct Rule, the Indirect Rule and the Settler Rule. Direct rule Imperialist countries that established a home base in a claimed territory used the direct rule method. With direct rule, conquering nations transplanted their language, culture and system of government into a subordinate territory. The government overtly attempted to "civilize" the indigenous people by undermining their traditional institutions. Native inhabitants who wished to succeed under direct rule had to adopt the values and lifestyle of the ruling power. They had centralized administrations, usually in urban centres that stressed policies of assimilation. Direct rule also used the strategy of "divide and rule" by implementing policies that intentionally weakened indigenous power networks and institutions. The people in the colonies were under direct rule of the mother country. The natives of the colony were like inhabitants of the mother country. Th...
Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State and his Oyo State counterpart, Abiola Ajimobi, are leading citizens of their states to the final burial events for Mrs Hannah Idowu Dideolu, HID, Awolowo as the final burial rights commence. She died on September 19, and the rights which started with lying-in-state at her Park Lane residence in Apapa, yesterday, is expected to climax with the interment scheduled for November 25 when she would have been 100 years old. Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday, joined scores of residents at the lying-in-state of late HID Awolowo at the family’s residence in Park Lane, Apapa Speaking shortly after the rites, Ambode said Mama Awolowo’s demise was a great loss to Lagos as she was a major force in the development of trade and commerce in the state. He said: “For the fact that the final burial rites of Mama is commencing in Lagos State signifies that this is a loss to the whole of Lagosians and the mere fact that we are remember...
