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The international police has issued an arrest warrant for ex-minister of petroleum resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. 
 
“We have filed the necessary processes and the Interpol has red-flagged Allison-Madueke. This means that the extradition process has been kick-started and the former minister may be arrested by the United Kingdom police or any police agency all over the world and repatriated to Nigeria,” Punch’s report quoted a source as saying. 
 
Recall that the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, had, December 5th, vowed to comply with a Federal Territory High Court order mandating the commission to produce former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in court within 72 hours to stand trial for alleged graft while in office. 
 
Magu, who made the vow at a briefing in Abuja, had also lamented that 80 percent of Nigeria’s looted funds were still trapped abroad, while 60 percent of the stolen wealth was hidden in Nigeria by fraudulent and highly placed persons he described as “sharks.” 
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He, however, vowed to take all necessary steps to unravel and retrieve the stolen wealth and bring the perpetrators of the crime to justice, no matter how long and tedious the judicial process might be. 
 
He had said, in compliance with the court order, that the commission had stepped up effort to persuade the British authorities to extradite Diezani to face prosecution for sundry economic and financial crimes, having not charged her for any offence in the last three years, as widely expected. 
 
According to him, “We are going to comply with the court order to bring back the former minister. Our only predicament is that the former minister is in another country, which we are talking with over the matter. If she is here, we would simply hand her over to the judge. 
 
‘’Let me also say that it is not true that Diezani has no case in Britain. All the EU countries are aware of her money laundering case. If we cannot get her within the deadline, we will go back to the court.” 
 
He denied claims that the United Kingdom’s Serious Fraud Office had not established any case against the former minister and was, therefore, not pressing any charges against her but expressed fears that the prolonged delay in charging her to court had already sent wrong signals to Nigerians at home and abroad. 
 
Meanwhile, according to the revelation on Friday, the sources cited said, with the extradition process started by the UK government, that the former minister would be arrested by any police in the world. 
 
The source as cited said, “By this request, all Interpol member countries were obliged to arrest the former minister anywhere she is seen on their territories.” 
 
“Attached to the extradition request was the November 4, 2018 order for her arrest by Justice Valentine Ashi of the FCT High Court.” 
 
Allison-Madueke had left Nigeria for UK since 2015, just before the Buhari administration came onboard.</div>

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Imo governorship not family affair - Oshiomhole

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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Mr Adams Oshiomhole, has condemned nepotism in the government of Imo State. 
 
Oshiomhole, who spoke at the just concluded rally to launch the APC campaign in the state, said the party’s governorship candidate, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, would return Imo to the people and bring an end to government by a single family. 
 
The incumbent governor, Mr Rochas Okorocha, and the state Chairman of the APC, Mr Dan Nwafor, were absent from the rally. 
 
Oshiomhole stated that the days were gone when a governor would look at the faces of his people and say there was no money to do other things besides pay those who were working for the government. 
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He said, “When you elect Senator Hope, appointment into government will be based on merit, not family connection. 
 
“I’m assuring you that we have a governorship candidate, whose purpose is to develop and bring prosperity to the Igbo young man, the Owerri young woman, the carpenter, the mechanic and, above all, my own comrades, the civil servants of Imo State who don’t know any longer what a payday looks like. 
 
“When we talk of happiness, we will not domesticate it in the hands of a sister. The happiness of the great people of Imo State will be the primary purpose of government under Sen. Hope Uzodinma,” he said. 
 
According to the APC chairman, due process will be the basis for constructing buildings and building roads. 
 
“One contract will not be awarded to three people. If it must be awarded, it will not be awarded to in-laws. It will be awarded to the genuine businessmen and women of Imo State. 
 
“Never again will any of your governors look at your (traditional) leaders and abuse them because democracy is about people. 
 
“Never again shall we govern on the basis of family connections. Whether you know somebody or you don’t, whether you marry from me or I don’t marry from you, that shall not be the basis for winning the next election,” he said. 
 
Oshiomhole assured families with breadwinners and pensioners who had not been paid for six to nine months that “the bailout, which President Muhammadu Buhari had given governors, including the governor of Imo State, and was not used for that purpose, will be retrieved and our pensioners will smile again.” 
 
He added, “Let me also say without fear of contradiction that those who are printing posters and putting President Buhari’s face on it with their face and logo because their face and party are unknown — those ones are fake. 
 
“President Buhari has the APC as his party. He is our presidential candidate. He has adopted Sen. Hope Uzodinma as the governorship candidate.” 
 
Earlier, Uzodinma assured the APC chairman that, at the end of the day, the party would be vindicated. 
 
“We are not going to disappoint the people of Imo and we’ll have victory, five over five. I promise, in the name of the almighty God, it shall never be the same again. The Egyptians you are seeing today, you shall see no more,” he said.</div>

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Deji Adeyanju remanded in prison custody till February

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Deji Adeyanju has been remanded in prison custody until 6th February 2019 by the Chief Magistrate’s Court in Kano. 
 
The court, on Friday, took the plea of Adeyanju who is charged with complicity in series of murders since 2000s. 
 
The court said that it lacked jurisdiction to hear murder charges against Adeyanju who had been arrested since Dec. 13. 
 
Adeyanju stood trial on similar charges between 2005 and 2009 but was discharged and acquitted by the Kano State High Court. 
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Adeyanju was arrested and detained for five days in Abuja before he was moved to Kano. 
 
Chief Magistrates Hassan Fagge had on December 19, ordered his remand and scheduled today for bail hearing. 
 
But when the court opened at about 9:42 a.m. Friday, Mr Fagge said he had determined that he lacked the power to hear the homicide charges brought against Mr Adeyanju by the police. 
 
Adeyanju was moved to Kano Central Prison. 
 
The position of the court has hit the social media, especially Twitter. 
 
BREAKING: The Chief magistrate in charge of Deji’s case declines Jurisdiction. The case has been adjourned to 6th February for further mention. @adeyanjudeji will spend his Christmas and New year in Prison. 
 
This phase too shall pass. 
 
— Thεό Deji Adeyanju (@Shalomttheo) 21 December 2018</div>