The Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has kicked against the purported reinstatement of staff from the Lagos State Building Control Agency (LASBCA) who were previously dismissed following the tragic incident of a collapsed 6-storey building within Lekki Gardens Estate at Ikate Elegushi, Lekki in March 2016, reports ITREALMS.
The accountability group in a press statement available to ITREALMS, therefore urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to promptly investigate this reinstatement for necessary action.
Remember the viral video of a Police Corporal, Opeyemi Kadiri, caught searching the phone of a young man, molesting and harassing him? Opeyemi has been dismissed, reports ITREALMS.
Confirming this in a press statement available to ITREALMS by the Force Public Relations Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi, on Friday evening, he said, Kadiri, with Force No. 509745, and attached to the Dolphin Divisional Headquarters, Lagos State Police Command was dismissed with effect from today, August 12, 2022.
A court in the United Kingdom has given reasons for rejection of the application by some leaders of
Ejamah Ebubu community in Ogoniland to register the judgement of a Nigerian
Federal High Court in the country for enforcement, reports ITREALMS.
Claimants had applied to register the judgement
to enforce a N183 billion judgment sum, which was the judgement sum and the
interest over the spill incident in the community in or about 1969, a spill
Shell Petroleum Development Company said arose from third party activities
during the Nigerian civil war. The company also said the spill site had since
been remediated. The claimants recalculated the High Court
judgement of N17 billion plus interest to be N183 billion as at January 2019,
but admitted to the UK court that the sum was overstated. The claimants also obtained an order of a
Nigerian court to seize and sell the assets of SPDC to satisfy the said
judgment, while the matter is still the subject of several proceedings,
including pending appeals at the Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of
Nigeria. In the judgement, on Thursday, a copy of which
was obtained by ITREALMS,
the UK court declined the request for registration of the Nigerian court
judgment after finding that SPDC suffered a serious breach of natural justice
“through being prevented from presenting its defence to the claim” in Nigeria. The court also the claimants overstated the
judgement sum. Reacting to the ruling, spokesperson for Shell
Nigeria, Bamidele Odugbesan, said: “This spill was caused by third parties
during the Nigerian Civil War, a challenging period which resulted in
significant damage to oil and gas infrastructure in the region. While SPDC does
not accept responsibility for these spills, the affected sites in the Ebubu
community were fully remediated. “We are pleased that the English court has
rejected the registration of this judgement for enforcement in the UK. This
matter is still the subject of several proceedings in the Nigerian Courts,
including pending appeals at the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and it remains our position
that no payment is due. It is regrettable that the legal process in this case
has focused for so long on procedural issues and not the merits of the case
when we have always maintained that we are ready to defend this case based on
the available facts.” Nenye Dom/Editor
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