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<span class="place_cont" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: inherit; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px; text-transform: uppercase;">NEW DELHI: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;"> Amid Delhi's worst dengue outbreak in five years, the Delhi government today issued an order asking schools to ensure that children wear full-sleeve uniforms to school for the next one month.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 24px;">Mr Sisodia has directed the schools to allow children to wear full sleeves clothes of any colour, irrespective of whether it is the school uniform or not.</span><br />
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Nigerian Senate to probe EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde for allegedly diverting ₦1 Trillion recovered loot

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<b>The Nigerian Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions will 
on Wednesday begin a probe of the Chairman of the Economic and Financial
 Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Lamorde, over an allegation that he 
fraudulently diverted over N1tn proceeds of corruption recovered by the 
anti-graft agency.</b><br />
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Part of the money alleged by a petitioner to have been diverted by the 
EFCC boss included the loot recovered from a former Governor of Bayelsa 
State, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha; and ex-Inspector-General of Police, Tafa
 Balogun.<br />
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The petitioner, Mr. George Uboh, whose complaint to the Senate prompted 
the probe, has been invited to appear before the Senate committee at 
Meeting Room 120 of the New Senate Building, National Assembly Complex, 
Abuja, by 10am on Wednesday.<br />
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Similar invitation, it was learnt, had been extended to Lamorde to 
appear before the Senate committee the same time on Wednesday.<br />
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The fraud allegedly perpetrated by Larmode was said to have dated back 
to his days as the Director of Operations of the EFCC between 2003 and 
2007, as well as an acting Chairman of the commission between June 2007 
and May 2008, when the then chairman of the anti-graft agency, Mr. Nuhu 
Ribadu, was away for a course at the National Institute for Policy and 
Strategic Studies, Kuru, Jos.<br />
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Uboh, Chief Executive Officer of Panic Alert Security Systems, a 
security firm, in his petition dated July 31, 2015, accused Lamorde of 
some specific instances of under-remittance and non-disclosure of 
proceeds of corruption recovered from criminal suspects, including   
Balogun and Alamieyeseigha.<br />
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He assured the Senate that he would produce “overwhelming evidence” to back his claims against Lamorde.<br />
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Uboh also alleged that the EFCC had not accounted for “offshore 
recoveries” and that “over half of the assets seized from suspects are 
not reflected in EFCC exhibit records”.<br />
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The petitioner equally accused Lamorde of conspiring with some EFCC 
officers and external auditors “to operate and conceal a recovery 
account in the Central Bank of Nigeria and excluded the balances from 
your audited financial statements between 2005 and 2011”.<br />
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“Lamorde continues to conceal the details of the unsold properties 
forfeited by both Tafa Balogun and DSP Alamieyeseigha despite receiving 
rent revenues from some estate agents on the said properties,” he 
further alleged.<br />
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Alamieyeseigha, the man who former President Goodluck Jonathan succeeded
 as Bayelsa State governor in 2005, had forfeited property and funds in 
various bank accounts as part of terms of plea bargain in his trial by 
the EFCC.<br />
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He had pleaded guilty to six counts of corruption charges before a 
Federal High Court in Lagos on July 26, 2007 and served concurrent two 
years imprisonment on each count, though he was later pardoned by 
Jonathan in 2013.<br />
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Balogun had also forfeited landed assets and funds and was sentenced to 
six months imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Abuja after he 
pleaded guilty to various counts of corruption charges.<br />
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Uboh, asked that Lamorde be prosecuted and proposed 10 counts of fraud 
in his petition, which was addressed to the Senate President Bukola 
Saraki, through the Delta State Senator in the National Assembly, Peter 
Nwaoboshi.<br />
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In the petition bearing Nwaobohi’s acknowledgment, Uboh alleged that 
Lamorde in March 2013 diverted the sum of N779m out of the total N3bn 
forfeited by Balogun to the Federal Government and that the EFCC boss 
conspired with some officials of the anti-graft agency to under-remit 
the ex-IG’s forfeited funds of about N5.85bn into the Consolidated 
Revenue Account by holding back about N2.65bn.<br />
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Uboh also alleged that Lamorde conspired with some EFCC officials to 
remit to Bayelsa State the sum of N3.1bn instead of the total sum of 
N4.3bn proceeds of corruption recovered from Alamieyeseigha.<br />
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The petitioner said that Lamorde, as Director of Operations of the EFCC,
 conspired with some officers of the commission to manipulate records of
 assets recovered from Alamieyeseigha, an act which allegedly paved the 
way for him to trade with about N3.7bn of the recovered funds for almost
 two years.<br />
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“Sir, the aggregate funds diverted by Lamorde/EFCC stated below in the 
attached criminal charges is over N1tn. However, because over 95 per 
cent of overseas seizures are diverted, there is an urgent need to 
investigate and recover those funds as well,” Uboh’s petition read in 
part.<br />
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Our correspondent, on Sunday, obtained a copy of the Senate Committee on
 Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions’ letter, which was signed by 
the committee’s clerk, Freedom Osolo, inviting Uboh to the Wednesday’s 
meeting.<br />
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The letter of invitation entitled, ‘Invitation to a meeting of the 
Senate Committee on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions’, partly 
read, “I am directed to invite you to a meeting of the Senate Committee 
on Ethics, Privileges and Public Petitions of the National Assembly in 
respect of your petition (copy attached) against the Economic and 
Financial Crimes Commission Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde.”<br />
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“You are by this invitation, required to appear before the committee 
with all necessary evidence to support your allegation,” the invitation 
letter also noted.<br />
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Part of the proposed charges prepared by Uboh read, “That you Mr. 
Ibrahim Lamorde, as the executive chairman of EFCC in March 2013, in the
 bid to conceal a fraud of N779,155,004:62, being the diverted amount 
from the forfeited funds by Tafa Balogun, falsified documents in 
response to the request made on you by duly constituted authorities, 
wherein you fraudulently stated the total of 13 bank balances as 
N2,258,100,576:98 instead of N3,037,255,521:60<br />
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“That you Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, as the Director of operations, conspired 
with some officers in the EFCC to manipulate the forfeitures and 
recoveries from DSP Alamieyesiegha, which events took place between 2006
 and 2007, as if it took place in July 2008, with a view to shifting 
responsibilities to the regime or tenure of Mrs. Farida Waziri. By this 
act, you traded with recoveries amounting to over N3.7 bn for almost two
 years before formerly documenting the transaction.”<br />
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When contacted, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said, “I am not aware of it (the petition).”

Nigerian Senate to probe EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde for allegedly diverting ₦1 Trillion recovered loot

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National Open University (NOUN) Stop New Intake Into Its Law Programme

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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I must say that the Law programme
in National Open University (NOUN) was approved by the NUC; we do not get
permission from anybody to approve any programme; it’s our responsibility.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Executive Secretary of the <u><span style="color: blue;">National Universities Commission (NUC)</span></u>, Prof.
Julius Okojie, has stated that the commission is working with stakeholders
to resolve the standoff on admission of graduates of the <u><span style="color: blue;">National Open University (NOUN)</span></u> into Law School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okoie, who made this known at a
capacity building workshop for education correspondents on Thursday in Abuja,
said NUC was addressing the issue with the Council for Legal Education (CLE).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It will be recalled that CLE
had insisted that that Law graduates of NOUN will not be admitted into the
Nigerian Law School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okojie said that the Law programme
of NOUN was approved by NUC but CLE adjudged it a part time programme which was
the reason it rejected it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“This matter is being addressed
because it is between us, CLE and the university.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“What we have done in the interim is
stop new intake into that programme so that they do not have a backlog; we are
addressing the issue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“When the Council for Legal Education came up
with the idea of no part time Law, NOUN did not consider Law a part time
programme by their mode; so they did not stop the programme.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The NUC boss explained that in the
first letter that followed the licence of a private university, the commission
gives it the take off programmes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to him, three years down
the line, NUC goes for accreditation and verification before such a school can
take new programmes. (NAN)</span></div>
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