Day: November 6, 2024

Import licence: Oil marketers ask court to dismiss Dangote Refinery’s suit

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Three oil marketers have prayed a Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit filed by Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals.The oil marketers, in a joint counter affidavit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/1324/2024 filed in response to Dangote Refinery’s originating summons, told Justice Inyang Ekwo that granting that application would spell doom for the country’s oil sector.According to them, the plan to monopolise the oil sector is a recipe for disaster in the country.The three marketers; AYM Shafa Limited, A. A. Rano Limited and Matrix Petroleum Services Limited, in their response, said…

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Onitsha Bus Drivers Protest Extortion by ARTMA

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The bus drivers plying Awka to Onitsha went on protest today, though peacefully, against the extortion of their members by men of Anambra Road Traffic Management Agency (ARTMA). They complain that the ARTMA staff are in the habit of extorting from the motorists for flimsy and varied offences that are out of traffic offence. according to a protester, the ARTMA officials are in the habit of arresting and booking motorists in order to meet their targets. again, in other cases, it is confirmed that the money which they collect from…

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Court orders EFCC lawyer to confirm alleged fictitious report in Ali Bello’s trial

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A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the EFCC lawyer, Abbas Mohammed, to confirm and report back to the court if an alleged “misleading” report on the court’s proceedings was from the commission’s website.Justice Obiora Egwuatu gave the order after the defence lawyers in the money laundering trial of Ali Bello and his co-defendants accused the EFCC of publishing untrue accounts of what transpired in court on Tuesday on its website against their clients.Abubakar Aliyu, SAN, and Nureini Jimoh, SAN, who appeared for the defendants in the alleged…

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