The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Tuesday hear a suit filed by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria against the Central Bank of Nigeria and others over the implementation of local government autonomy. This action aims to enforce the Supreme Court’s July 2024 ruling, which affirmed the financial autonomy of LGAs, mandating direct allocation of funds from the Federation Account. The suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/353/2025, was instituted by the Registered Trustees of ALGON against the Attorney General of the Federation, the Minister of Finance, state Commissioners for Finance, and 21 others. Other defendants include the Minister of...
Bangladesh Court Issues Arrest Warrant For British MP Linked To Ex-Premier Sheikh Hasina
A judge in Bangladesh issued an arrest warrant for British lawmaker and former government minister Tulip Siddiq, a niece of Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was ousted in August last year in a mass uprising that ended her 15-year rule. The country’s official Anti-Corruption Commission has been investigating allegations against Siddiq that she and her family members, including Hasina, illegally received land in a state-owned township project near the capital, Dhaka. Senior Special Judge of Dhaka Metropolitan Zakir Hossain passed the order on Sunday, after considering charges in three separate cases filed by the Anti-Corruption Commission, the leading Dhaka-based...
Police detain popular singer, ‘portable’ for alleged criminal defamation
Kwara State police command has arrested a popular singer, Habeb Okikiola Badmus, aka ‘portable’ for alleged criminal defamation and other related offences, DAILY POST reports. The arrest was carried out in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Saturday, by operatives of the command, acting on a petition by one Okunola Saheed, popularly known as ‘Osupa’. This was contained in a statement on Sunday by the spokesperson of the command, SP Adetoun Ejire-Adeyemi in Ilorin, the state capital. The statement read in part, “The Kwara State Police Command wishes to inform the general public that following a petition received from one Mr. Okunola...
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on Tuesday hear a suit filed by the Association of Local Governments of Nigeria against the Central Bank of Nigeria and others over the implementation of local government autonomy.
Other defendants include the Minister of Budget and National Planning; Accountant-General of the Federation; the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission; the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, various commercial banks, and one Bello Lawal. Following the Supreme Court judgment of July 11, 2024, which granted financial autonomy to LGs, ALGON filed a suit seeking an order restraining the disbursement of funds to local governments without its approval. Additionally, ALGON demands that the 774 local councils be granted representation at Federation Account Allocation Committee meetings where allocations are discussed. ALGON Secretary-General, Mohammed Abubakar, confirmed the suit hearing date to The PUNCH...
New York Helicopter Company To Shut Down Following Crash That Killed Spain Family Of Five And A Pilot
The Federal Aviation Administration —FAA— late on Sunday disclosed that the company that operated the helicopter that crashed into the Hudson River in New York last week, killing all six people on board, will shut down immediately. New York Helicopter Tours is “shutting down their operations immediately,” the FAA said in a statement on X, adding that it would launch a review of the company’s license and safety records. The company is already subject to an investigation from the National Transportation Safety Board, which said on Saturday that the helicopter was not fitted with any flight recorders or on-board cameras. A family of five visiting...
