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A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has dismissed an application by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke urging it to compel the Attorney General of the Federation, Mr Abubakar Malami, to bring her back to Nigeria.

Diezani had brought the application before the court asking to be brought back to Nigeria to defend a criminal charge bordering on alleged laundering of N450 million.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) did not deliberate on the adoption of President Muhammadu Buhari for a second term at its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting which held Tuesday in Abuja.

National Publicity Secretary of the party, Bolaji Abdullahi disclosed this while sopeaking to news men shortly after the meeting.

National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, has denied any friction between him and President Muhammadu Buhari.

The APC leader stated this on Monday in an interview with State House correspondents shortly after meeting with the President at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the President Muhammadu Buhari, Mr Garba Shehu, says the president will not stop anybody from being prosecuted where it becomes necessary.

He made the comments on Tuesday speaking on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, in response to comments trailing the sack of the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir David Lawal and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke.

The ECOWAS Community Court of Justice has granted an out of court settlement application for a case involving the federal government and nine victims of the Nigerian civil war. At its sitting on Monday, the court ordered the parties to abide by the terms of the settlement, part of which stipulates that the federal government pay without delay, N50 billion as compensation to the victims, their families and communities.

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