Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

N70m Fraud: Court Adjourns NIMG Director, Bamali’s Trial to Nov 12

Justice Daniel Longji of the State High Court sitting in Jos, Plateau State, has adjourned a N70million fraud trial involving Engineer Umar Saidu Bamali, Director, Nigeria Institute of Mining and Geosciences, NIMG and his Procurement Officer, Adeniyi Adeosun, to November 12, 2018. The adjournment followed the decision of the second defendant, Adeosun, to plead guilty to the charge. The defendants allegedly diverted over N70million, money meant for allowances of staff of NIMG and contracts of printing of security and non-security documents. Specifically, Bamali, in 2015 allegedly misappropriate…