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FCT Court Grants ₦100m Bail to Ex-CCT Chairman Danladi Umar
A Federal Capital Territory High Court on Wednesday granted bail to Danladi Umar, the former Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), who is standing trial on allegations of abuse of office and corruption.
Justice Peter Kekemeke admitted Umar to bail in the sum of ₦100 million with one surety who must hold a Certificate of Occupancy for property in Abuja. The judge ordered that Umar remain in Kuje Correctional Centre until the bail conditions are fully satisfied.
In his ruling, Justice Kekemeke said the prosecution failed to prove that the defendant would interfere with witnesses, noting that the alleged witnesses were staff of the CCT during Umar’s tenure. The court also held that there was no evidence suggesting Umar was likely to jump bail, as he had made himself available throughout the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) investigation.
Umar was arraigned by the EFCC on July 9, 2026, on a four-count charge. He pleaded not guilty and was remanded in prison pending the bail application.
The charges allege that Umar used his official position to confer unfair advantages on himself, including the receipt of payments totalling around ₦15 million. One of the specific allegations involves ₦5.5 million allegedly paid into his wife’s account by a contractor engaged to paint the CCT headquarters.
The case has been adjourned to October 29, 2026, for further hearing. If convicted, Umar faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison.
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Olukoyede Sacks 40 EFCC Staff Over Corruption
The EFCC chairman said the commission had also introduced measures to strengthen accountability among its personnel, including a gift policy designed to regulate the acceptance and declaration of gifts by staff.
“In the past two and a half years or three years of my service, I have asked them to dismiss over 40 staff on account of corruption and financial malpractice.”
The above disclosure was made by the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, when he met with media executives and other journalists in Abuja, yesterday.
“More than five of them are being prosecuted at the moment. You can follow those cases in court; they are public knowledge,”said Olukoyede..
He stressed that the laid off staff is part of the efforts to ensure that personnel of the anti-graft agency maintained the highest standards of integrity while investigating and prosecuting corruption cases.
The EFCC chairman said the commission had also introduced measures to strengthen accountability among its personnel, including a gift policy designed to regulate the acceptance and declaration of gifts by staff.
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EFCC Summons Sylva for Questionings
This is in connection with an alleged $14.86 million fraud when he was former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has invited former Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva, to make himself available for questioning.
This is in connection with an alleged $14.86 million fraud when he was former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources.
The commission’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, stated this on Monday while reacting to Sylva’s public reappearance, and his allegation that the anti-graft agency had conducted itself more as an organ of the All Progressives Congress than as an institution of the state.
“He has been declared wanted; he should make himself available to the commission,” Oyewale said.
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JAMB introducing facial scan to catch UTME impersonators
Under the new arrangement, JAMB said it would partner with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to verify candidates through live facial recognition before they are allowed to sit the UTME.
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to introduce Facial Biometric Verification (FBV) in the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The aim according to the examination body is to tackle impersonation, examination malpractice and restore greater integrity to the examination process.
The development was contained in the Board’s weekly bulletin released on Monday.
Under the new arrangement, JAMB said it would partner with the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) to verify candidates through live facial recognition before they are allowed to sit the UTME.
The Board said candidates seeking to take the examination would undergo live facial verification through an application, with the verification result forwarded to NIMC.
The identity management agency would subsequently return a code to JAMB to either affirm or reject the candidate’s identity claim.
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