The Economic and Financial Commission has
received kudos in their renewed onslaught against corrupt Nigerian Government
officials. The praise came from the Chairman, League of Patriotic Lawyers,
Malam Abubakar Yusuf. Speaking in Lagos, the fiery lawyer even called for the
Bangladesh treatment where corrupt officials are tried for two weeks and
thereafter the guilty ones are executed by hanging. "Without such a
drastic action, stealing will continue", he declared to the ExposeNews. “The
situation where Nigerian Government officials think that they are clever and
attempt to hide their ill-gotten wealth under pseudo names won’t work anymore”.
He cited the case of Justice Ofili Ajumogobia who bought several properties in
Park View Estate and London using fake names although the properties bore her
signatures. She is right now in EFCC net. There is also the case of Orji Uzor
kalu whose billion naira fraud case has now been charged to court. The lawyer
equally hailed the EFCC for exhuming the $182 billion Halliburton case and
bringing former Attorney General Andoakaa to book. He also commended the EFCC
for trying to arraign five Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Lawyers, who were
allegedly paid hefty sum of $26 million as negotiation fees.
Appointed since 1 st April, 2015 till date, Prof. Adepoju Adeshola Olatunde, Director-General of the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria (FRIN) has left no room to chance. The Ph.D holder in Agricultural and Environmental Economics (2002) from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State has taken extra-ordinary steps to see the Forestry Institute to the next level of existence. One of such steps is the repositioning of FRIN outstation for better research focus. Others include renovation of dilapidated structures, repositioning of staff members for optimum performance, reclaiming/security all encroached land and resources of the Institute, successfully enacting on Act to Establish Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria for Forestry Research; Education and Training; establishing Six strategic Rural Resource Centers for communities engagement, capacity building and extension services. Prof. Adepoju who also holds B.Agric (Agricultural Economics), 1995 ...
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