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J ustice Tinuade Akomolafe-Wilson led three-man Court of Appeal panel has ordered the Senate President Bukola Saraki to return to the Code of Conduct Tribunal to face trial on three of the counts of corruption over failure to disclose his assets to while dismissing others. The appellate judges ruled that three of the counts have been proven beyond reasonable doubt by the prosecutors of the Code of Conduct Tribunal.

O ne often-asked question is this: What has the Buhari administration done in/for the South-East? This page — which will be regularly updated — will attempt to provide answers. 1. 600 km of roads under construction across the 5 states of the region, as at May 2017 (See details in Item 10, the article by presidential spokesperson, Mallam Garba Shehu) 2. Allocation of 16.67 billion Naira from the Federal Government’s October 2017 SUKUK Bond, to four critical road projects in the region: a) Rehabilitation of Onitsha-Enugu Expressway b) Rehabilitation of Sections 1, 2 and 3 of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Road. 3. Commencement, in October 2017, of payment of pensions to police officers who were granted Presidential pardon in 2000 after serving in the former Biafran Police during the Nigerian Civil War. These officers, and their next of kin, have waited for their pensions for 17 years since the Presidential pardon. 4. Presidential Fertilizer Initiative (PFI): Ebonyi was a