Nigeria, Aug. 14 -- Okoi Obono-Obla, the chairman of presidential panel on recovery of public assets, has finally been served a letter of his immediate suspension from office.

The letter, obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Monday, corroborated this newspaper's previous reports of Mr Obono-Obla's removal from office for a series of allegations, including falsification of WAEC result and corruption.

Mr Obono-Obla had spent the past few days dismissing the exclusive reports as unfounded and sponsored by powerful elements. He also insisted that he remained in office because he had not been informed of his suspension.

The emergence of the letter comes hours after PREMIUM TIMES reported that Mr Obono-Obla had been finally asked to stop all activit...