A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, declared that the Senate acted illegally in awarding N18.4 billion as compensation to 34 oil producing communities of Obiafu, Soku to Bonny in Rivers over Nigeria NLG Ltd’s acquisition of right of way (ROW).
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The Federal Capital Territory Administration is to pay N825.8 million as compensation for the construction of a second runway for Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Niger Government has constituted a Claims and Verification Committee for compensation of individuals affected by the construction of Minna-Bida Road in the State.
While a sum of N7.4 million was paid to petitioners who were compensated by the judicial panel of inquiry constituted to probe cases of human rights abuses by the disbanded Special- Anti Robbery Squad (SARS), 700 farmers, whose lands were acquired for construction of the airport got a sum of N500 million and indemnity certificates.
The Vice President and Zonal Secretary of the union, Cosmas Oni and Bamigbola Gbolagunte, made the call in a statement on Thursday.
The plaintiffs, 70-year-old Alhaji Yusuf Madugu Umaru and four other members of Igabi community, had instituted the suit on October 28, 2014, asking the court to restrain the NAF and three others, being the defendants, from further trespassing into their property.
Justice Taiwo Taiwo, in his judgment, also ordered the National Hospital, Abuja to immediately release the three corpses in its morgue.
The Special Adviser to the Governor on Lands Bureau, Yetunde Onabule, disclosed this at the annual Ministerial Press Briefing to mark the third year anniversary of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration held at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa.
The State Commissioner for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Tayelolu Otitoju, disclosed this during a press conference in Ado-Ekiti on Friday.
The governor disclosed this in a statement by his Press Secretary, Alhaji Abubakar Muazu, made available to newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Monday.
Speaking on the performance report presented by Pepple, the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, said: “We are pleased with the report