{"id":13355,"date":"2026-11-09T14:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/icpc-files-amended-charge-against-adeyemi-adds-four-civil-servants\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T14:45:54","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T14:45:54","slug":"icpc-files-amended-charge-against-adeyemi-adds-four-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/icpc-files-amended-charge-against-adeyemi-adds-four-civil-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"ICPC files amended charge against Adeyemi, adds four civil servants"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img width=\"650\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ICPC-files-amended-charge-against-Adeyemi-adds-four-civil-servants.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"ICPC files amended charge against Adeyemi, adds four civil servants\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" srcset=\"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ICPC-files-amended-charge-against-Adeyemi-adds-four-civil-servants.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.vanguardngr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Adeniyi-Adeyemi--e1784653993138-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed amended charges against Adeniyi Adeyemi, the purported director general of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The prosecution counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, SAN, told the court that ICPC expanded the previous 22 counts to 36.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahir said that the four suspects are Aminu Abdullahi, Ogaba Harry, Florence Omameh and Patricia Akhigbe and included in the new charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case was originally filed by the Nigerian police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday\u2019s proceedings, which originally slated for hearing of Adeyemi\u2019s bail application, was halted because of the charge amendment, requiring all defendants, including Adeyemi, to enter their pleas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the plea taking could not proceed because the fourth defendant, Omameh, was absent from court on health grounds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the defendants were in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dHer unavailability in court has constrained the prosecution from proceeding with the arraignment, this being a criminal charge,\u201d Tahir said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He relied on Section 266 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) for his application.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tahir argued that an accused person has to be present in court throughout the trial, \u201csubject to the exception stated therein.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He, therefore, urged the court for a short adjournment to allow the fourth defendant time to recover and enter her plea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adeyemi\u2019s counsel, Ibrahim Angulu, SAN, did not object to the amended charge or adjournment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he reminded the court of Adeyemi\u2019s prolonged detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Meanwhile, Justice Yusuf Halilu adjourned until Nov. 18 for the arraignment of the suspects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He, however, ordered that Adeyemi should be taken back to Kuje Correctional Facility and the other defendants to return to the ICPC detention facility. (NAN)<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2026\/11\/icpc-files-amended-charge-against-adeyemi-adds-four-civil-servants\/\">ICPC files amended charge against Adeyemi, adds four civil servants<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/\">Vanguard News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <\/p>\n<div class=\"nSourse\">Vanguard News<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has filed amended charges against Adeniyi Adeyemi, the purported director general of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC).&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13356,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}