FG FILES 20 NEW CHARGES AGAINST EMEFIELE

Nigeria’s federal government on Tuesday slammed fresh 20 charges against Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This is the government applied to withdraw the “illegal possession of firearms” case it filed against the suspended apex bank chief. Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) at the Federal Ministry of Justice Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar told Justice Nicholas Oweibo that the application followed the result of further investigations. He made his application orally. But defence counsel Joseph Daudu (SAN) opposed him, arguing that because the government was in…

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