BY IDIBIA GABRIEL A former House of Representatives (HoR) member, Farouk Lawan has been released from prison, after serving a five-year jail term. The former lawmaker was released on Tuesday morning from the Kuje Correctional facility in Abuja. The former HoR member was sentenced to five years in prison for corruptly demanding and accepting a […]
Farouk Lawan, the former chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy, was sentenced to seven years in jail by an Abuja High Court for the $3 million bribery accusations brought against him by the Nigerian government. Lawan was involved in the investigation of the multi-billion naira gasoline subsidy scandal in 2012 […]
Former Chairman of the House of Representatives ad-hoc Committee that investigated the fuel subsidy regime in 2012, Farouk Lawan, for the third time on Thursday failed to open his defence in his trial for an alleged infraction in the fuel subsidy regime before a Federal Capital Territory High Court, Apo. Lawan, was dragged before Justice […]
Abuja – Farouk Lawan, former Chairman of the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on investigation into fuel subsidy regime, on Thursday in an FCT High Court Apo for the third time failed to open his defence in his trial for an alleged infraction in the fuel subsidy regime. Lawan, former chairman of House Adhoc Committee […]
Former Chairman of then House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee on Fuel Subsidy probe, Mr. Farouk Lawan on Tuesday, told an Abuja High Court that his proposed witness lost his brother to Lassa fever in Kano state last Sunday. Lawan who is facing bribery charge said: “My lord we are very much ready to open our […]
Justice Angela Otaluka of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court ,Apo on Thursday ordered Farouk Lawan a former House of Representatives member to enter his defence in a case of 500,000 dollars bribery allegation against him. The court had over ruled the no-case submission made by Lawan, through his counsel, Chief Mike Ozekhome (SAN) […]