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Worried about the lack of access to affordable houses, Vice President Yemi Osibanjo, President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representative, State Governors and the private sector, will soon converge on Abuja to brainstorm on how to tackle the housing deficit. Key players from the private sector and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), will also ...

A prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, Mr. Michael Wetkas, told the Code of Conduct Tribunal on Tuesday that Saraki bought a London property worth N375m in 2010 which he did not declare. Saraki is being prosecuted on 16 counts, including false and anticipatory asset declaration which he allegedly made when he was ...

The Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki has called on estate surveyors and valuers to evolve strategies that would check corruption in the real estate sector, reiterating National Assembly’s resolve to stimulate urban development in the country through oversight function and effective legislation Saraki made the call while declaring open the 46th Annual Conference of NIESV with the theme; ‘City Growth: ...

Lawyers to Toyin Saraki, the wife of the embattled Nigerian Senate president, Bukola Saraki, have said the controversial hidden assets the politician failed to disclose, tucked away in secret offshore tax havens, belong solely to Mrs. Saraki, and not her family estate. A trove of internal data from the Panama-based offshore-provider, Mossack Fonseca, obtained by the German newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung ...

To forestall the incidence of false declaration of assets by politicians and other citizens, the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria is set to introduce a property valuation certificate in April. This initiative, it said, was prompted by the trial of the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, at the Code of Conduct Tribunal. Saraki is standing trial at the ...

The Senate President, Olubukola Saraki, after an unsuccessful attempt to challenge the jurisdiction of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to put him under criminal trial, began his defence against the 13-count false assets declaration charge. Prosecution counsel led by Mr Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) briefed the tribunal how the accused person, while in office as the executive governor of Kwara ...