The immediate past Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke has been freed from EFCC custody after 53 days.

 

He has been in the custody of the anti-graft agency after he was arrested upon his return from a self-exile, since December 19, 2019.

 

But he regained his freedom yesterday shortly after he was granted bail by Justice Binta Nyako in the fresh money laundering charges instituted against him by the EFCC.

 

He and his co-accused, Aliyu Abubakar, earlier pleaded not guilty to the seven counts instituted against them.

 

Adoke’s lawyer, Mike Ozekhome speaks to us on why he expressed worry over the delay in the trial and what next after his client has been granted bail.

 

President Muhammadu Buhari has again promised that all children kidnapped by Boko Haram terrorists would be set free during his regime.

 

He gave this assurance at a breakfast dialogue on ‘‘Stop the War on Children Affected by Armed Conflicts, Dividend of Silencing the Guns’’, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, held on the margins of the ongoing 33rd African Union Summit.

 

According to Buhari, number of schoolgirls from Chibok and Dapchi earlier abducted by Boko Haram has regained their freedom.

 

Governor of Borno State, Babagana Zulum, has blamed the Nigeria Army for the Sunday night attack by Boko Haram that killed over 30 stranded travelers.

 

Governor Zulum said this while visiting the scene where Boko Haram gunmen had attacked and massacred many travelers that were stranded outside the military entrance city gate outside Maiduguri, usually locked at 6p.m.

 

The governor insisted that attack would have been prevented if the military had not withdrawn from Auno town.

 

The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee to study and make a full report on Nigeria’s land border closure with her neighbours.

 

The committee headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso.

 

According to a statement issued today by Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media, Garba Shehu, the decision to set up the committee was agreed Sunday night in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at an extraordinary session of ECOWAS leaders convened on the margins of the 33rd AU Summit to discuss the issue and other pressing regional matters.

 

It said Nigeria’s Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, told journalists after the three-hour closed-door session that the meeting attended by President BUHARI and chaired by the ECOWAS Chairman, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic, also discussed West Africa′s new single currency, the Eco, and the situation in Guinea Bissau after the presidential election.