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Abuja - The immediate past president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, and his estranged former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, are set to appear before the House of Representatives Committee probing the contracts in the power sector.

Obasanjo and Atiku have both separately resolved to appear before the panel in order to clear their names. Atiku conveyed his readiness to appear before the panel through a letter to the Chairman of the House Committee on Power and Steel, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, dated May 7, 2008 and signed on his behalf by Abdullahi Nyanko.

Abuja - The Nigerian Police Force has given strong man of Ibadan politics, Chief Lamidi Adedibu, a clean behavioral report in the ongoing trial before an Abuja High Court.

At the hearing yesterday in Abuja, Counsel for the Commissioner of Police (CP), Collumbus Okaro, told the court that the accused  person who was in court as pursuant to section 88(1) of the Criminal Procedure Code (CPC), has been of good behavior and that he has strictly complied with the conditions of bail.

Naijawire.com (Abuja) - The Nigerian federal government is challenging a court of Appeal judgment that ordered former Federal Minister of Finance, Dr (Mrs) Okonjo-Iweala and former Federal Minister for External Affairs, Ambassador Olufemi Adeniji, to immediately refund a total N215million to the coffers of the Federal Government, being excess of salaries drawn by them while holding office.

The original case which was brought to the Appeal Courts by human rights activist, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), focused on why the duo of Okonjo-Iweala and Adeniji were not only paid excessively above the constitutional recommended salaries for federal ministers, but also paid in foreign currencies in banks held overseas.