Politics
FH Court Grants Bauchi Commissioner, Adamu N100m Bail
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal High Court in Abuja has admitted Bauchi State Finance Commissioner, Yakubu Adamu to N100 million bail in the alleged $9.7m terrorism financing charges brought against him by the federal government.
The Commissioner was admitted to bail alongside four others.
In a ruling on his bail application, Justice Umar ordered that the Commissioner produce two sureties who will stand for him in like sum.
However, one of the sureties must be a serving Permanent Secretary in the civil service, while the other must be a Director also in the civil service.
He was ordered to deposit his travelling documents with the Registrar of the court and must not travel out of the country without the permission of the court.
Similarly, the Commissioner was ordered to report to the Department of State Service DSS in Bauchi every Monday pending the commencement of his trial.
In the ruling, Justice Umar held that there was no sufficient evidence of terrorism financing in the proof of evidence attached to the charge.
The Judge said that mere money donations to individual or corporate bodies should not be sufficient without cogent and verifiable evidence that the person is a terrorist or the corporate body a terrorist organization.
Justice Umar dismissed the vehement objections by the federal government against the bail request, adding that the objections lacked merit and substance.
He subsequently fixed March 26 for commencement of the trial.
Edo North senator, Adams Oshiomhole, has playfully called out Senate President Godswill Akpabio for breaching truce over ‘massaging women’s legs’ comment.
At plenary on Thursday, Oshiomhole said he signed a truce of no more hostilities, stating that Akpabio breached the agreement by reverting to previous matters.
DAILY POST reports that Akpabio had mocked Oshiomhole over the viral video allegedly showing him massaging a woman’s leg aboard a private jet.
The Senate President stated that the Senate initially ignored the footage because it was suspected to have been generated using artificial intelligence, AI.
Recall that a video which surfaced on X on February 3, 2026, sparked widespread reactions after it allegedly showed the former Edo State governor massaging a woman’s leg inside a private jet, days later the lawmaker debunked the video stating that it was AI.
Joking over it at the plenary, Oshiomhole said, “I want to report to this house that the senate president and I we signed a truce of no more hostilities and senate president breach the truce by reverting to previous matter, the truce stands, you should not violate, I will not violate.”
Responding, Akpabio said, “Let me first of all apologize to Oshiomhole if whatever I said could in any way injure him or feel offended.”
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Members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, loyal to the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike, have taken over the secretariat of the party in Oyo State.
The secretariat, located in the Molete area of Ibadan, was in the custody of the faction loyal to Governor Seyi Makinde of the state until Thursday when the members loyal to Wike took over the premises.
DAILY POST gathered that the PDP members stormed the secretariat on Thursday and occupied the premises with hundreds of members of the party in attendance.
PDP chairman in the state, Professor Abdulrahman Akinoso, confirmed the development to DAILY POST.
Akinoso in a telephone conversation with DAILY POST on Thursday, insisted that the real owners have taken over the premises.
He said, “It is true. It is not faction. It is PDP. We have taken over the premises. It was in the morning. We were there in the morning. We just left the premises. We are now in control. We have taken over the premises.” .…For more, Complete your reading.
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