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By Kamil Opeyemi A Federal High Court sitting in Kano on Friday ordered the Kano State Government to pay N30 billion as compensation to shop owners whose properties were demolished at Kofar Mata Eid praying ground in Kano city. The applicants Incorporated Trustees of Masallacin Idi Shop Owners, Traders Association and 56 others, through their Counsel, Dr Nuraddeen Ayagi, prayed then court for the compensation. They filed a motion exparte seeking for their enforcement of fundamental rights, right to own properties and damages against the State Government for demolishing their shops. The respondents in the suit are: Kano State Government,…
By Hallimah Olamide Managing Director of a popular hotel in Ilorin has been found dead in one of the hotel rooms. Police spokesman in Kwara, CSP Okasanmi Ajayi, stated in Ilorin on Friday that a supervisor at the hotel reported a suspected homicide to the police in Ilorin on Thursday. He added that a team of detectives was immediately dispatched to the hotel and the deceased was found lying motionless on the hotel room bed. Ajayi stated that the body showed no sign of physical violence and assured that the police would investigate the cause of death further. “Doctors at…
Vows to Continue With Strike By Kamil Opeyemi The Nigerian Labour Congress has accused the Attorney General of the Federation and Minuster of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, of attempting to gag the workers saying nothing can stop them from going ahead with the planned strike. In a statement titled “The AGF Has Descended into the Arena” the Labour said Fagbemi’s statement on court order stopping them from going on strike is not only insulting to the workers, it is an attempt to intimidate with the instrument of the law. The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr Lateef…
By Halimah Olamide A last minute efforts by the Federal Government to avert the nationwide strike by the organised labour appears to have failed as representatives of the Nigerian Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress Friday night shunned the meeting which was to be coordinated by the Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Simon Lalong. The representatives of the government were said to have waited endlessly for the labour representatives and all calls to them failed to produce the desired result. A presidency source told the NPO Reports late Friday…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Federation Account Allocation Committee (FAAC), has shared the sum of N1.1 trillion to the Federal Government, states and Local Government Councils (LGCs) for August. This is contained in a communiqué issued by the FAAC at its September meeting. The communiqué said that the N1.1 trillion total distributable revenue comprised statutory revenue of N357.398 billion, Value Added Tax (VAT) revenue of N 321.941 billion and Electronic Money Transfer Levy (EMTL) revenue of N14.102 billion. It also comprised Exchange Difference revenue of N229.568 billion and Augmentation of N177.092 billion. The communiqué said total revenue of N1.48 trillion billion…
A former gang leader has been charged with Tupac Shakur’s murder in Las Vegas in 1996. Duane “Keffe D” Davis was indicted by a grand jury in Nevada, prosecutor Marc DiGiacomo has told a court. Davis’s nephew and Shakur were involved in a fight in a casino, police say, leading to the retaliatory shooting of Shakur. The hip-hop legend was shot in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas in September 1996. He died aged 25, a week after he was shot four times in his car while waiting at a red light. Police say Shakur waited 27 years for justice,…
The Civil Society Coalition for Good Governance has urged President Bola Tinubu to appoint the next Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) chairman from the southern part of the country. Speaking at the State of the Nation Media Briefing in Lagos on Friday, the spokespersons of the group, Mr Olufemi Lawson said that no southerner had ever occupied the seat. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that on June 15, Mr Abdulkarim Chukkol, the EFCC, Director of Operations assumed duty as the acting chairman of the anti-graft agency. President Bola Tinubu had on June 14, suspended Abdulrasheed Bawa as EFCC chairman and…
By Kamil Opeyemi The Minister of works, David Umahi has apologised to workers of the ministry for locking them out on To Thursday. NPOReports had on Thursday reported how Umahi ordered the security working at the ministry to lock the two entrance against some workers who came late. Umahi who got to the ministry’s complex ahead of some directors and staff in the morning, denied them access to their respective offices. After the order was carried out, there was a protest at the federal ministry of works and housing in Abuja. Addressing the protesters, Umahi apologised to staff of…
Sets Up Fresh Meetings With Workers By Halimah Olamide The Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government is making frantic efforts to stave off the proposed nationwide strike by the organised labour. The OPS had picked October 3 as the commencement date for a nationwide indefinite strike by all workers. Mobilising all critical sectors of the economy to ensure maximum impact of the strike, the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG) has said that it is backing the strike with the possibilities of halting supplies of products nationwide. The NLC has also secured the buy in of the national electricity…
Says N4bn Still Intact Out of the Money By Halimah Olamide The chairman of the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee, Taiwo Oyedele, has opened up on the alleged N5bn released by the former Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mr. Mohammed Nami. An online publication, The Cable, had reported that a sum of N5bn was released by the former FIRS boss shortly before leaving office two weeks ago, aa development believed to have raised suspicion. However, Oyedele, who came out to explain the reason for the release of the funds, said it was part of the funds…