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...and yet another. Whither Nigeria? Why do we keep chasing the wind?

''It is almost certain that the embattled former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission {EFCC}, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, will be extradited from his United States of America’s base, following an order for his arrest, on Friday, by the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja over his refusal to present himself for trial. The tribunal is prosecuting him for alleged failure to declare assets while in office between 2003 and 2008 as required by the fifth schedule to the 1999 Constitution''


Ribadu Faces Extradition - Conduct Tribunal Orders His Arrest
Lanre Adewole, Abuja - 21.11.2009

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