(FLOWERBUDNEWS) Biodun Fatoyinbo, Senior Pastor and founder of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA) is currently being detained at Nigerian Police Force Headquarters in Abuja after he surrendered himself for questioning over rape allegations levelled against him by Mrs Busola Dakolo.
Mrs Dakolo, wife of Nigeria’s inspirational singer Timi Dakolo had accused Fatoyinbo of raping her many years ago – allegation that had elicited comments from Nigerians.
NAN gathered that Fatoyinbo is being interrogated at Force Criminal Investigation Division (FCID) headquarters in Abuja by a team of four officers led by Assistant Commissioner of Police Adaku Uche Anya.
(FLOWERBUD NEWS) Indonesia is sending 1,200 police reinforcements to West Papua province as unrest triggered by the treatment of Papuan students on the main island of Java continued for a third day, police said on Wednesday.
National police spokesman Muhammad Iqbal said that protesters torched a traditional market and other government buildings in the town of Fakfak in the latest violence.
Iqbal said that additional personnel would be sent to Manokwari and Sorong, where protesters set fire to buildings on Monday and Tuesday.
“The situation is under control.
“We are prioritizing persuasive measures and communicating with community and religious leaders,” he added.
Thousands of people marched in West Papua on Monday and set fire to several government buildings in response to a crackdown on Papuan students in East Java who were protesting for self-determination for their homeland on Friday.
Protesters also torched a section of a prison in Sorong, prompting a riot that led to the escape of more than 250 inmates.
Rights groups have criticized the police for what they called heavy-handed treatment of dozens of the Papuan protesters during the rally demanding self-determination for their homeland in East Java.
Police forced their way into a Papuan student dormitory in Surabaya, the country’s second largest city, briefly detained dozens of students for allegedly desecrating an Indonesian flag.
Papuan activists said they were also subjected to racist abuse.
Indonesian security forces have intensified operations in Papua after separatist rebels killed about two dozen construction workers building a road in December.
Separatists have fought for independence for the region since the 1960s.
Papua and West Papua provinces make up the Indonesian half of New Guinea island. (dpa/NAN)
(FLOWERBUD NEWS) Darius Ishaku of Taraba on Wednesday disbursed N500 million under Community and Social Development Projects (CSDP) for the execution of projects in 50 communities in the state.
Ishaku, who was represented by Mr Anthony Jellason, Secretary to the State Government (SSG), acknowledged the enormous contributions of the CSDP in the state.
According to him, the activities of the platform is in line with my vision for taking development to local populace and I will continue to support the agency to achieve it goals.
He said that the 50 benefiting communities were selected from eleven local areas in the state.
“It gives me great pleasure to launch this mega project by the CSDP in Taraba state.
“ I have great passion for the execution of projects handled by the CSDP because their mission is in line with my development trajectory as contained in my project blue book.
“The CSDP team in the state is sincere and hardworking and we can always count on them to deliver where others the state agencies may not easily reach.
“ And the quality of their projects is also quite commendable.
“The projects will cut across eleven local government areas of the state will surely bring the dividends of democracy closer to the people of our state.
“it will benefit those residents in the most remote areas of the state.
“This is an ongoing exercise and so the second phase would capture the other local government areas not covered by this first phase.
“ I urge you to use the funds judiciously and to stick to the approved projects and specifications to attain the desired goal of the project.
Earlier, Mr Ezekiel Danjuma, General Manager of the CSDP said that the remarkable success recorded by the CSDP in the state reflected the commitment of the state government.
Danjuma urged benefiting communities to take charge of the projects and ensure that they were not vandalized by hoodlums.
He further warned those who were to take custody of the funds to use them judiciously.
He said that the CSDP would not hesitate to invoke the wrath of the EFCC if anyone was suspected to embezzle any portion of the funds by any means.
“Today is really a milestone in our collective bid to bring development to the very nooks and crannies of our dear state.
“Today we are flagging off the distribution of over Five Hundred Million Naira for the implementation of various projects across over fifty communities in the state.
“This is made possible because the state governor Architect Darius Ishaku is more committed to CSDP than any other governor in the country and has always paid the counterpart fund promptly.
“ It will be recalled that the state government paid five Hundred million Naira last year and has concluded arrangements for the payment of another Three hundred million Naira this year.
“Let me urge the benefiting communities to take charge of the projects.
“ I must also warn that this money must be applied judiciously as we will invite EFCC to prosecute anyone who embezzled even a penny from this fund’, Danjuma said.
NAN recalls that CSDP is an ECOWAS initiative that is aimed at executing developmental projects in rural communities.
The platform has many other development partners. (NAN)
(FLOWERBUD NEWS) President Sergio Mattarella of Italy, on Wednesday began a two-day talks with parties, to seek a way out of a political crisis that will lead to the formation of the country’s 67th government since World War II or to early elections.
Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, resigned on Tuesday after launching a blistering attack on his own interior minister, Matteo Salvini, accusing him of sinking the coalition and endangering the economy for personal and political gain.
In a shock move on Aug. 8, Salvini, leader of the far-right League party, declared that his alliance with the anti-establishment Five-Star Movement was dead and called for elections.
Salvini had repeatedly promised that the 14-month-old government would last a full five-year term and appeared confident his move would trigger early elections, allowing him to cash in on the League’s surging popularity.
But the gambit could backfire and open the door to power for his rivals.
Politicians from Five-Star and the centre-left Democratic Party (PD) are openly discussing forming a new coalition that would push the League into opposition and give Italy a more centrist, pro-European government.
”The interior minister has shown he is following his own interests and those of his party … his decisions pose serious risks for this country,” Conte.
Conte, who does not belong to either ruling party, told the Senate on Tuesday before heading to the president’s palace to resign.
Financial markets rallied on Conte’s resignation, seemingly hopeful that a 5-Star/PD coalition can be ushered in and snap polls avoided.
Some investors fear that if Salvini uses elections to form a League-led government as prime minister, he will ramp up spending and set the heavily indebted nation on a collision course with the EU.
Germany’s finance minister on Wednesday said that a new coalition in Italy looked likely and that there was no sign of a looming euro zone crisis due to the political upheaval in Rome.
”It looks as if a new government, perhaps with a different composition, will emerge,” German Finance, Minister Olaf Scholz, said.
Mattarella will meet with all the parties in parliament, one by one, to see if a new coalition can be formed.
Failing that, he would have to dissolve parliament, three and a half years ahead of schedule, to allow for autumn elections.
He will begin with minor groups at 1400 GMT but will not hear the main parties until Thursday, concluding with Five-Star at 1500 GMT.
The PD’s leadership is also scheduled to meet at 0900 GMT on Wednesday to discuss the prospect of joining forces with Five-Star.
The two parties have been bitter political foes for years. (Reuters/NAN)
(FLOWERBUD NEWS) The Head of Service, Mrs Winifred Oyo-Ita, who was reported to be on medical leave, was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday to witness the swearing-in of the ministers-designate.
News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Head of Service, who was also reported to have submitted her resignation letter to the Presidency over alleged contract scam, was seen seated on her `traditional’ position at the council chamber of the presidential villa.
NAN gathered that the head of service, who arrived the presidential villa shortly before the commencement of the inauguration of the ministers by the president, was seen heading towards the office of the Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari
NAN, however, observed that Oyo-Ita, who was listed as one of the speakers at the just concluded presidential retreat held between Aug. 19 and Aug. 20, was absent at the venue of the event.
Oyo-Ita was reported to be on medical leave after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) quizzed her over an alleged contract scam to the tune of N3 billion.
NAN reports that the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Boss Mustapha, who was earlier re-appointed by the president, first took his oath of office during the inauguration of the ministers.
NAN reports that the inauguration of the ministers-designate was ongoing as at the time of filing this report.(NAN)
Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State has appealed to stakeholders to support routine immunisation for children in the state.
Ganduje made the call in Dawakin Tofa on Tuesday, while flagging off the Meningitis vaccine, “MenA”, which is an addition to the routine immunisation in the state.
The governor, represented by Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Usman Alhaji, stressed the importance of making healthcare accessible to communities in the state.
“We are totally committed to improving the healthcare delivery for the benefit of our people, and this will only be successful with support from development partners and other stakeholders,” he said.
Ganduje called on traditional rulers in particular, to continue mobilising and enlightening their subjects on the importance of routine immunisation to their children.
“We all have a role to play in accelerating healthcare; I call on all local governments to invest in routine immunisation in their respective areas,” he said.
The governor lauded the efforts of UNICEF and other partners for their support in communicating to caregivers the importance of “MenA” vaccine and the risks of meningitis.
In a goodwill message, the UNICEF Health Specialist, Kano Field office, Hajiya Saudat Basheer, pledged body’s continuous support to the state for the benefit of children.
Basheer said that UNICEF would always be ready to support the state in promoting the wellbeings of children.
The Emir of Bichi, Alhaji Aminu Bayero, represented by the District Head of Tofa, Alhaji Isyaku Umar, expressed readiness to assist in the fight against child killer diseases.
(FLOWERBUD NEWS) AWKA- A human rights activist, KeneChukwu Okeke, the Chief Ombudsman for the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) has instituted a Fifty Billion Naira fundamental rights action on behalf of tricycle workers against the Anambra State Government
Also joined in the human right suit is Governor of Anambra State, Commissioner for Transport, Inspector-General of Police, Anambra State Commissioner of Police and alleged Revenue Racketeers
(TOAN) ANAMBRA CHAPTER
He stated that the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Sections 34, 40, protected freedom of association by tricycle workers.
Okeke is demanding that the court should sanction the Anambra State Government, Police, and other non-state actors for “infringing upon the fundamental rights of the Applicants”.
He is praying the National Industrial Court of Nigeria to interpret or apply the fundamental rights of tricycle workers in Anambra State guaranteed under Articles 2, 5, 10, & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Sections 34, 40, 42 & 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
According to Okeke, the Anambra State Government (1st Respondent) had, on the 5th day of July arbitrarily, maliciously, without any justification and in ‘excess of jurisdiction’ proscribed the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) from operating in Anambra vide a letter addressed to the Commissioner of Police (6th Respondent) without affording the 1st Applicant an opportunity to make representations before the issuance of the proscription order which doth violence to Sections 36 (1), (2) & 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
In the case marked NICN/AWK/33/2019 filed at the Registry of the National Industrial Court, Awka Judicial Division on behalf of the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN), August 19, Okeke told the court that not only that the fundamental rights inherent in the 2nd Applicants as members of a trade union was violently breached but also the fundamental rights which inhere in the 1st Applicant itself, as a registered trade union, persona ficta corpus corporatum was contravened by the Respondents.
Okeke insisted that“ the actions of the Anambra State Government and the Police was malafide, politically orchestrated, ill-conceived, with the sole aim to “cause maximum damage” to the Applicants.
It was further submitted the fundamental right to freedom of association cannot be abridged or circumscribed, save through a procedure permitted by law.
Furthermore, it was said that the 10th to 33rd Respondents invaded and forcefully took-over all the tricycle parks belonging to the 1st Applicant in Anambra State at the instance of the 1st to 4th Respondents, using the instrumentality of the police therein named as the 5th to 8th Respondents.
And that members of the 1st Applicant refusing to be lurched or compelling to renouncing the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) or refusing to be coerced to joining the 10th and 11th Respondents being an athwart labour association are arrested, detained, assaulted, shackled and have their tricycles (tools of trade) distrained.
Okeke stated under oath that whenever the 5th to 8th Respondents see any commercial tricycle bearing the colour code, emblem or stickers of the 1st Applicant, the 5th to 33rd Respondents working in cahoots, would arrest, impound or distrain such tricycles, and compel or lurch such tricycle workers (members of the 1st Applicant) to renounce the membership or any association with the 1st Applicant, and thence coerced to subscribing to the membership of the 10th and 11th Respondents but not after parting with levies and fines imposed collectively by the 5th to 33rd Respondents at various Police Stations.
He also said that the fundamental right to freedom from any form of discrimination vide Section 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended) is absolute, and cannot therefore be abridged or circumscribed by any person, group of persons or authority; and that the 1st to 4th Respondents arbitrarily, maliciously and in ‘excess of jurisdiction’ proscribed the 1st Applicant, so as to confer advantages on the 10th to 33rd Respondents and to subjecting the Applicants to disabilities or restrictions to which other associations are not made subject to. And that the 5th to 8th Respondents have taken the membership or any association with the 1st Applicant as grounds for arrests, detention and discriminating persecutions.
“As at the material time of this deposition, majority of the members of the 1st Applicants vis-a-vis 2nd Applicants are still under forced hiding or disappearance for fear of state-sponsored violent attacks on their persons. Many are gone with a trace.” Okeke averred.
He told the court that by the malafide actions of the Respondents, the Applicants are “subjected to an undeserved outrageous and unwarranted contempt, cruelty, insolence, malice, oppression, humiliation, molestation, embarrassment, degradation, and inconveniences vide the infringement of their fundamental rights as guaranteed under Articles 2, 5, 10, & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Sections 34, 40, 42 & 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).”
He said that the proscription order issued by the Anambra State Government is “most opprobrious and denigrating” albeit misleading, baseless, malicious and totally bereft of any foundation in common law howsoever.
It will be recalled that Anambra State Government had in a letter dated June 13, proscribed the Tricycle Owners Association of Nigeria (TOAN) from operating from Anambra State. Kenechukwu Okeke, MCSD condemned the purported proscription and demanded for an immediate reversal.
He had also threatened legal action against the State and non-State actors should the Anambra State Government fail to reverse the said proscription within 30 days.
However, Okeke said he had no choice than to seek legal redress, since the Anambra State Government, rather than mitigate the plight of hapless workers, “is insensitive nay aggravates the pains of the poor masses”.
“The Applicants are still at a loss as to why the Nigeria Police Force under the overall command of the 5th Respondent have stooped so low or denigrated itself to the extent of liaising or working in cahoots with touts and revenue racketeers named as the 10th to 33rd Respondents to arresting, detaining, harassing, intimidating, extorting, assaulting, lurching nay compelling the members of the 1st Applicant to renounce any form of association with the 1st Applicant and forcing the members of the 1st Applicant to sign or subscribe to the membership forms and levies of the 10th and 11th Respondents as a condition for their bail.” Okeke Asserted.
The Applicants said the “purported proscription” was also published by several newspapers nationwide, international news platforms and on several social media news.
Consequently, the Applicants sought fifteen(15) reliefs from the National Industrial Court, thus:
A DECLARATION that the freedom of association guaranteed under Article 10 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Section 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended) is not merely a bundle of individual fundamental rights inherent in the 2nd Applicants as natural members of the 1st Applicant but the collective rights which inhere in the 1st Applicant itself as a registered trade union, persona ficta corpus corporatum.
A DECLARATION that the proscription of the 1st Applicant, as contained in the letter dated 13th June, 2019 vide AN/MOT/130/71 issued by the 3rd Respondent on behalf of the 1st and 2nd Respondents without affording the 1st Applicant the opportunity to be heard or make prior representations before the decision contained in the letter was made, thereof violated the fundamental rights of the Applicants and contravened Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Sections 36(1), (2), & 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended) having impugned on the Applicants’ right to fair hearing and freedom of association.
A DECLARATION that the proscription of the 1st Applicant by the 3rd Respondent acting on behalf of the 1st and 2nd Respondents, on the ground of being ‘strange to Anambra State Government’, enforcement of same being carried out by the 5th to 8th Respondents and the subsequent acts of violence unleashed against the members of the 1st Applicant by the 10th to 33rd Respondents in pursuance to the said proscription is discriminatory; and therefore constituted a violation to the fundamental rights of the Applicants to associate freely, and freedom from any form of discrimination, as enshrined under Sections 34 (1), 40 & 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended) but not limited to the express provisions, as ensconced in Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004.
A DECLARATION that the compulsion of the 2nd Applicants by the Respondents to renounce their membership or association with the 1st Applicant or coercion into joining the 10th and 11th Respondents, being an athwart labour or anti-trade union associations operating severally under the names and styles of ‘KKAWAAPU Amalgamated Tricycle Union of Anambra State’; or ‘Unified Tricycle Owners and Riders Association of Anambra, UTORAAS’ contravened the fundamental rights of the Applicants, as it relates to freedom of association by virtue of Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Sections 40 and 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended).
A DECLARATION that the threats by the Respondents to arrest, detain, harass, torture, molest or assault members of the 1st Applicant or the 2nd Applicants for their refusal to be lurched or compelled to renounce the 1st Applicant or coerced to joining the 10th and 11th Respondents, being an athwart labour or anti-trade union associations operating severally under the names and styles of ‘KKAWAAPU Amalgamated Tricycle Union of Anambra State’ or ‘Unified Tricycle Owners and Riders Association of Anambra, UTORAAS’ is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional, and doth violence to the fundamental rights of the Applicants as enshrined under Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Section 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended), relating to freedom of association.
A DECLARATION that the actual victimization, discrimination, arrest, detention, forceful distrainment of tricycles, or assault by the respondents unleashed against the members of the 1st Applicant or the 2nd Applicants for their refusal to be lurched or compelled to renounce the 1st Applicant or coerced to joining the 10th and 11th Respondents, being an athwart labour or anti-trade union associations operating severally under the names and styles of ‘KKAWAAPU Amalgamated Tricycle Union of Anambra State’ or ‘Unified Tricycle Owners and Riders Association of Anambra, UTORAAS’ is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional, null, void, and doth violence to the fundamental rights of the Applicants as enshrined under Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Section 40 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended), relating to freedom of association.
A DECLARATION that the continued victimization, discrimination, arrest, harassment, detention, forceful distrainment of tricycles, torture, intimidation, molestation or assault by the Respondents unleashed against the members of the 1st Applicant or 2nd Applicants for their refusal to be lurched or compelled to renouncing the 1st Applicant or coerced to joining the 10th and 11th Respondents, being an athwart labour or anti-trade union associations operating severally under the names and styles of ‘KKAWAAPU Amalgamated Tricycle Union of Anambra State’ or ‘Unified Tricycle Owners and Riders Association of Anambra State, UTORAAS’ is unlawful, illegal, unconstitutional, null, void, and constitutes a gross infringement on the fundamental rights of the Applicants as enshrined under Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Section 40 & 42 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended), relating to freedom of association.
A DECLARATION that the unlawful invasion and forceful take-over but not limited to both civil and criminal forfeitures made against the properties of the 1st Applicant and 2nd Applicants respectively by the 10th to 33rd Respondents at the behest of the 1st to 4th Respondents vide the instrumentality of the 5th to 8th Respondents smacks of victimization, deprivation, discrimination and grossly contumacious to the fundamental rights of the Applicants enshrined under Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Section 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended), relating to compulsory acquisition of property.
AN ORDER OF MANDATORY INJUNCTION directing the Respondents to issue a public apologia to the Applicants via publications or ‘public announcements’ in the print and electronic media, for so infringing on the fundamental rights of the Applicants; and for the undeserved, outrageous and unwarranted contempt, cruelty, insolence, malice, oppression, humiliation, assault, molestation, embarrassment, degradation and inconveniences to which the Applicants was subjected to by the Respondents, viz.
5 Printed Newspapers published in Nigeria id est.
Vanguard,
The Punch,
iii. The Nation,
Guardian, and
Thisday;
5 Printed Newspapers published in the Swiss Confederation id est.
Tamedia AG;
Basler Zeitung Medien;
iii. Grupo;
Fondazione per il Corriere del Ticino; and
Société Neuchâteloise de Presse SA;
5 Printed Newspapers published in Belgium id est.
Het Belang van Limburg,
De Tijd,
iii. De Morgen,
Grenz-Echo, and
L’Avenir;
20 Internet Media Platforms as prescribed in the Second Schedule.
20 Terrestrial Radio Stations as prescribed in the Second Schedule.
5 Terrestrial Television Stations as prescribed in the Second Schedule
AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondents either by themselves, their agents, privies, assigns, servants, police officers or other security agencies (within the purview of the National Security Agencies Act) from intermeddling with the activities of the 1st Applicant or interlarding with the fundamental rights of the 1st Applicant to accept as members, tricycle workers or employers who freely, voluntarily and willingly applied to become members of the 1st Applicant without victimization, discrimination, arrest, harassment, detention, forceful distrainment of tricycles, torture, molestation or assault.
AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUCTION restraining the Respondents either by themselves, their agents, privies, assigns, servants, police officers or other security agencies (within the purview of the National Security Agencies Act) from lurching or compelling the Applicants to join the 10th and 11th Respondents, being an athwart labour or anti-trade union associations operating severally under the names and styles of ‘KKAWAAPU Amalgamated Tricycle Union of Anambra State’ or ‘Unified Tricycle Owners and Riders Association of Anambra, UTORAAS’ and from any further threats to victimize, arrest, harass, torture, or assault members of the 1st Applicant or the 2nd Applicants, or the actual victimization, arrests, harassment, torture, intimidation, molestation, or assault of members of the 1st Applicant or the 2nd Applicants.
AN ORDER OF PERPETUAL INJUNCTION restraining the Respondents either by themselves, their agents, privies, assigns, servants, police officers or other security agencies (within the purview of the National Security Agencies Act) from harassing intimidating, threatening, victimizing, arresting, torturing, intimidating, or assaulting or howsoever to bringing to an end the lawful activities of the Applicants or visiting any form or manner of disadvantage or punishment on members of the 1st Applicant or 2nd Applicants operating in Anambra State or any part thereof, on account of their refusal to be lurched or compelled to joining the 10th and 11th Respondents, being an athwart labour or anti-trade union associations operating severally under the names and styles of ‘KKAWAAPU Amalgamated Tricycle Union of Anambra State’ or ‘Unified Tricycle Owners and Riders Association of Anambra, UTORAAS’.
AN AWARD OF GENERAL DAMAGES in the sum of 10, 000, 000, 000 NGN (Ten Billion Naira only) against the Respondents jointly and severally for the violation of Applicants’ fundamental rights as guaranteed under and Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Section 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (amended),; and Sections 34, 40, 42 & 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
AN AWARD OF AGGRAVATED AND EXEMPLARY DAMAGES in the sum of 40, 000, 000, 000 NGN Only (Forty Billion Naira Only) against the 1st to 4th Respondents jointly and severally for the undeserved outrageous and unwarranted contempt, cruelty, insolence, malice, oppression, humiliation, molestation, embarrassment, degradation and inconveniences to which the 1st Applicant was subjected to by the Respondent vide the infringement of the Applicants’ fundamental rights as guaranteed under Articles 2, 5, 10 & 22 of the African Charter on Human and People’s Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act, Cap. A9, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004; and Sections 34, 40, 42 & 44 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 (as amended).
AND FOR SUCH FURTHER ORDERS as the Honourable Court may deem fit to make in the circumstances of this case. (Flowerbudnews)
(FLOWERBUD NEWS) President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday swore in the 43 appointed ministers at the Federal Executive Council Chambers, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Buhari who announced the portfolio of each minister shortly after they were sworn in, urged them to direct all memos to his Chief of Staff Abba Kyari.
The president retained the portfolio of Minister of Petroleum Resources, while Timipre Sylva was announced as Minister of State for Petroleum.
Babatunde Fashola who was the Minister of Power, Works and Housing was stripped of the Power sector his brief, as Saleh Mamman who was nominated from Taraba now occupies the position. Goddy Agba is the Minister of State for Power.
