"How I got foreign currencies in my bank account" - Onnoghen

In response to allegations of non-declaration of his assets, justice Onnoghen added: “My asset declaration for numbers. SCN000014 and SCN.0000 5 were declared on the same day, December 14, 2016 because I forgot to make a declaration of May 2005 of my assets after the expiration of my 2005 declaration in 2009.

"Following my appointment as acting chief justice of Nigeria in November 2016, the need to declare my asset anew made me to realise the mistake and then did the declarations to cover the period in default.

"I did not include my Standard Chartered Bank Account in SCN. 000014 because I believed they were not opened during the period covered by the declaration.

“I did not make a fresh declaration of asset after my substantive appointment as CJN because I was under the impression that my SCN. 000015 was to cover the period of four years; which includes my leave as CJN.”

In another news report, the Federal High Court sitting in Kano has ordered an interim forfeiture of the sum of N1.04bn allegedly hidden the bank account of a company allegedly linked to former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, following a suit filed by the EFCC.

The anti-graft commission in a statement on Thursday, January 31, said the forfeiture order was granted by Justice Lewis Allagoa against Magel Resort LTD.

The EFCC stated that it secured the forfeiture order after it received an intelligence alleging that a bank account domiciled in a bank, was said to have stored huge sum of money that is not being used by anybody.