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Ripples Over States Pension Law

Justice Daketima Kio of the Rivers State High Court has declared that Mr Celestine Omehia cannot be held accountable for the payment of millions of naira in pension benefits from the state government. The judge noted this while delivering judgment in the suit brought by Omehia against the Rivers State Governor, Attorney General of the State, Speaker, and the State House of Assembly, challenging the directive of the government to refund over N696 million paid to him as pension and other benefits ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged President Bola Tinubu to obey a court judgment ordering the Nigerian government to recover pensions collected by former governors. SERAP asked President Tinubu "to emulate the good example of governor Alex Otti of Abia State by immediately obeying the judgment ordering the Federal Government to recover pensions collected by former governors, and to challenge the legality of states' pension laws permitting those invo...

SERAP agrees with former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s conclusion that states’ pension laws are ‘acts of daylight robbery’.

The deputy Senate leader and senator representing Kwara South senatorial district in the National Assembly, Senator Lola Ashiru, has said that zoning

Religion, ethnicity, population major factors How to reverse the trend – Legal practitioner   Since the return to democratic governance in 1999, the dream of at least six senatorial zones to take a shot at the governorship seat in their respective states has remained an illusion. Daily Trust on Sunday examines the factors responsible for…

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Justice Oguntoyinbo of the Federal High Court, Lagos had in November 2019 ordered the Federal Government to “recover life pensions collected by former governors..."

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a contempt suit against the Nigerian government and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice (AGF), Abubakar Malami (SAN), over failure to recover over N40 billion double pay and life pensions from former governors who are serving as lawmakers and ministers.  

SERAP sues the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government for contempt of the Court over its failure to recover double pay from ex-governors.