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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and Senate President Ahmad Lawan are expected to grace the 2022 Justice Sector Summit.

5 min read A journalist and publisher of Power Steering magazine, Oga Uhia, has lost his N110 million fundamental rights enforcement suit he instituted against the Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba, and police authorities, following his last year’s detention. Mr Uhia  was  detained by the Force Criminal Investigation Department (FCID) in Abuja for close to one month between October and November last year based on a petition sent to the police by Mr Jedy-Agba. He alleged in his suit that his arrest and detention were illegal and accused both the minister and the...

FCTA to re-introduce ‘park and pay’ policy Published 14 April 2021 The Federal Capital Territory Administration has concluded arrangements to re-introduce ‘park and pay’ policy on May 1 to curtail the rate of wrong parking in the city, the News Agency of Nigeria reports. The Acting Secretary of the FCTA, Transport Secretariat, Malam Usman Yahaya, gave the hint at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja. Yahaya said that the historic plan to re-introduce the ‘on-street parking policy’ in the territory was part of efforts to free the streets for better traffic flows. NAN reported that...

Advertisement The policy was suspended in April 2014 after a high court judgment stopped the FCTA from collecting fees from residents for on-and-off the street parking within the metropolis. Speaking to journalists on Tuesday in Abuja, Usman Yahaya, acting secretary of the FCTA transport secretariat, said the policy is being reintroduced to curtail the rate of wrong parking in the city. Yahaya said a court had ruled against the policy because the scheme was not recognised in the laws of the FCT. Advertisement “It was based on these shortcomings that the Suntrust Savings and Loans Ltd., chal...

4 min read A High Court in Abuja has waded into the crisis which has been rocking the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) for many months. The judge, Peter Affen, in a ruling on January 12, details of which was obtained by PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday, ruled against one of the factional presidents of the association, Ahmed Maiwada, who is seeking the upturn of the processes which brought in his rival, Camillus Ukah on March 28, 2020. The registered trustees of ANA had been listed by Mr Maiwada (also the claimant’s counsel), as claimant/respondent while Jerry Agada, Odia Ofeimun...