The judge held that there was evidence that the government had been served.

The bail application was filed by Emefiele’s lawyers, led by Joseph B. Daudu, SAN.

Daudu had urged the court to hear the defendant’s application seeking bail on self-recognition, noting that his client had fulfilled all the conditions necessary to make the application ripe for hearing.

He stated that the proof of service endorsed by the AGF’s office was in the court’s file.

Daudu asked the court to end what he described as the “oppression of his client by the Department of State Security”, which arrested him and hear the bail application.

“There should be an end to oppression,” he added.

But the government’s lawyer, a Deputy Director of Prosecution, N.B. Jones, told the court that she had not been furnished with the bail application.

“As I stand here, I have not set eyes on it,” she said.

Emefiele is standing trial on a two-count charge of illegal possession of a single-barrel shotgun (JOJEFF MAGNUM 8371) without a license on June 15, 2023, at Ikoyi.

Recall that in September 2019, a Federal High Court in Lagos granted EFCC’s application for final forfeiture of the jewellery reportedly worth $40 million seized from Diezani’s house.

The trial judge, Nicholas Oweibo said Mrs Alison-Madueke failed to prove that the properties sought to be forfeited were not acquired with proceeds of unlawful activities.

Speaking at the ongoing EFCC stakeholders conference on crusade against cybercrime fraudsters, the anti-graft agency chairman, Ibrahim Magu said 242 trailers and tankers recovered from internet scammers will also be auctioned of

Though the date the trial is expected to take off was not announced, the case twas adjourned to enable EFCC’s counsel Mr Rotimi Oyedepo and Naira Marley’s counsel Mr Olalekan Ojo SAN to respond to two motions.

Recall that Naira Marley was arrested on May 10 by the anti-graft agency, who subsequently filed an 11-count charge of alleged credit card fraud against him on May 14 in a suit marked FHC/L/178C/19. The singer pleaded ‘Not Guilty’ to the charges as it was further learnt that his co-defendant, Yad Isril is still at large.

Delivering judgement in a petition filed by Diezani challenging the EFCC’s authority to seize her jewelries, Justice Oweibo held that the former Minister through her counsel, Awa Kalu (SAN), failed to show cause why the items should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had in July this year, seized the luxury items which it believes are proceeds from ”unlawful activities”. The antigraft agency told the court that the items were beyond Madueke’s legitimate means.