A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has quashed its order, which temporarily forfeited to Federal Government two houses in Ilorin owned by former Senate President Bukola Saraki. Mr Rilwan Aikawa, who released the houses to Saraki, said he was not satisfied with the claims of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as to the origin of the properties. The judge said he found insufficient basis in the EFCC application and he could not “find my way through” to grant the permanent forfeiture order. Last December, Aikawa granted an order for the interim forfeiture of the houses – Plots No.…

Bauchi State Administrative Committee of Inquiry into Land Disputes, set up by Governor Bala Mohammed to look into farmers/herders crisis in the state has received a memorandum from a Fulani socio-cultural group, Daddo Pulaku, demanding four percent of the total land area of the state. Bauchi state has a total land mass of 49,119 km.sq. Four percent of that translates to 1,964.76 km.sq. The demand was contained in a memorandum submitted by the group to the committee yesterday where it stressed that the government should ensure the full implementation of the Cattle Routes law of Bauchi State, 2018 which enforced…

Traders dealing on dry meat in Nigeria have cried out over what they called “high-level intimidation and harassment” by officials of Nigerian Agricultural Quarantine department of Federal Ministry of Agriculture. The traders who operate under the umbrella name of Dried Meat Preservers Traders Association of Nigeria, DMPTAN, lamented that activities of those officials have almost crippled their business. Specifically, they accused them of invading their donkey skin processing camps across the states of Nigeria, with security agents, confiscate their goods and extort various amounts of money from them. The traders have, therefore, cried out to Federal Government to intervene and…

People around the globe are having way fewer babies. By the year 2100, that might turn into a pretty big problem for humanity — rather than the relief one might expect. If they aren’t already, dozens of countries’ populations will be going into decline in this century, according to a new study published in the Lancet this week. 23 countries are expected to feel this effect intensify, with their populations dropping to half of what they are now by the year 2100. The global population will peak at 9.7 billion around 2064, according to the new projection, and then drop…