Thursday, 19 January 2017

Saturday, 14 January 2017

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By Eric Beech and Warren Strobel



WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Classified documents presented last week to President-elect Donald Trump included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising information about him, CNN reported on Tuesday.
The allegations were in a two-page synopsis appended to a report presented by U.S. intelligence officials to Trump and President Barack Obama on Russian interference in the 2016 election, CNN said, citing multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings.
The allegations came, in part, from memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative, whose past work U.S. intelligence officials consider credible, CNN reported.
It said the FBI is investigating the credibility and accuracy of these allegations, which are based primarily on information from Russian sources, but has not confirmed many essential details in the memos about Trump.
The FBI declined comment.
Allegations that Russia attempted to compromise New York real estate businessman Trump have been circulating in Washington for months, and they were presented to U.S. officials last year.
Reuters has not been able to corroborate the allegations or confirm the existence of the two-page synopsis reported by CNN.
The warning to Trump, however, coincides with growing concern about what Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has called a "multifaceted" Russian influence and espionage campaign in Europe and the United States.
In addition to hacking computer networks and spreading propaganda and fake news, it includes efforts to cultivate business and political leaders and find compromising personal, financial or other information on persons of interest, U.S. intelligence officials said.
The classified briefings last week were presented by Clapper, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Brennan and National Security Agency Director Mike Rogers.
One reason the U.S. intelligence chiefs took the extraordinary step of including the synopsis in the briefing documents was to make Trump aware that allegations about him are circulating among intelligence agencies, senior members of Congress and government officials, CNN said.
An unclassified intelligence report released on Friday concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an effort to help Trump's electoral chances by discrediting Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential campaign.
The report said U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that as part of the effort Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, used intermediaries such as WikiLeaks and others to release emails it hacked from the Democratic National Committee and top Democrats.
(Reporting by Eric Beech and Warren Strobel; additional reporting by John Walcott, Mark Hosenball and Jonathan Landay; Editing by Eric Walsh and Grant McCool)

Monday, 9 January 2017

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The executive secretary of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria, Jim Obazee, has been sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Adedotun Sulaiman has been appointed as chairman and Daniel Asapokhai as the new executive secretary for the council.
This was disclosed in a statement by Garba Shehu,

Monday, 7 November 2016

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Thursday, 27 October 2016

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– The Court of Appeal are set to deliver judgement on Senate president Bukola Saraki’s trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) – A five-man panel heard the appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT, and reserved for judgment on Thursday, October 6 – The panel are set to deliver the judgment as this will be the second time the appeal court will be delivering judgment on the same subject matter Appeal court to deliver judgment on Saraki’s CCT trial The Court of Appeal will deliver judgment on the trial of Senate president Bukola Saraki before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Punch reports. The panel led by Justice Abdul Aboki heard the appeal challenging the jurisdiction of the CCT, and reserved for judgment on Thursday, October 6. However, the five-man panel are set to deliver the judgment as this will be the second time the appeal court will be delivering judgment on the same subject matter. READ ALSO: Appeal Court reserves judgment on Saraki’s appeal The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja, has reserved judgment in an appeal filed by the embattled Saraki lodged against his trial before the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT). Vanguard reports that a five-man panel of justices of the appellate court led by Justice Abdul Aboki, agreed to the judgment on the appeal. This was after the court heard arguments from Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, counsel to the federal government and Kanu Agabu, lead counsel to Saraki. He had gone before the appellate court to query the legal propriety of the 16-count criminal charge the federal government entered against him before the CCT. READ ALSO: I won’t withdraw from your case – CCT judge tells Saraki He is challenging jurisdiction of the Justice Danladi Umar-led tribunal to try him on the basis of a charge he said was incompetent and legally defective. The Senate president who has been undergoing trial since September 22, 2015 was charged with 16 counts of corruption.