Government (34)
HELD:
"...I should think religion, under the Constitution is not a business or purpose any Government in Nigeria should engage itself in.
HELD:
"In Nigeria, Sections 28 and 29 of the EFCC Act empowers the Commission upon the arrest of any person suspected to have committed economic and financial crimes to first administratively trace and attach all the assets and properties of the accused person and cause, by way of an ex-parte application, an interim order of attachment or forfeiture to be obtained in Court in respect of the assets.
HELD:
"Under Section 28 of the EFCC Act the Commission is empowered not only to arrest any person suspected to have committed an offence under the EFCC Act but also to trace and attach all his assets and properties which are reasonably suspected to have been acquired as a result of such Economic and Financial Crime and thereafter cause to be obtained, an interim attachment order.
HELD:
"The issue in this appeal relates to the phrase, "in addition to such other jurisdiction as may be conferred upon it by an Act of the National Assembly."
"The 1st Respondent is a body created by statute to carry out functions ascribed and specified in its Establishment act. Upon a careful and calm review of the powers of the 1st Respondent and the Police, these are statutory provisions with nothing therein that restricts the 1st Appellant from reinvestigating a complaint the police had looked into.