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FG, Switzerland Sign Agreement on Return of Abacha Loot

The federal government has said a framework that will make it easier to trace and repatriate stolen assets stashed abroad is being worked out even as it signed an agreement with Switzerland for the restitution of illegally-acquired assets forfeited in Switzerland by the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha.   The Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, disclosed this on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa in Abuja during a meeting with a Swiss delegation led by the country’s Federal Councillor and Head of its Foreign Affairs Department, Mr. Didier Burk

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Metuh’s Holding Charge is Illegal – PDP Tells EFCC, FG

Read the PDP statement below.. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says the continued incarceration of its spokesman, Chief Olisa Metuh by the EFCC since Tuesday, without charging him to court, clearly shows the dictatorial character of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC Federal Government, which has not hidden its disdain for rule of law and an appetite to gag the opposition. The party said the continued detention is in clear breach of Chief Metuh’s constitutionally guaranteed liberty and fundamental rights. (more…)