A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the Federal Government to pay 1.638 billion dollars to Delta Government being 13 per cent derivative sum due as arrears of revenue payable to the oil-rich state. Justice Donatus Okorowo, while delivering the judgment, held that being a suit instituted to recover revenue accruing to the state government, it qualified for the undefended list.Okorowo ruled that the development made the court to declare the plaintiff’s case as “unchallenged.”The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while the Attorney-General of Delta is the…
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