Lagos state

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Lagos state: HOMEF advocates restraint on dredging makoko ... (Voice of Nigeria)

The Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), has called for restraint on the dredging of Makoko waterfront in Lagos state.

“Makoko and other underserved communities in Lagos and elsewhere in Nigeria, deserve to be upgraded with adequate supply of social services and not displaced for the benefit of land speculators and other forces of accumulation by dispossession.” He noted the idea of using development as a foil for grabbing waterfronts, displacing and destroying the lives and cultures of the people must be stopped. According to him, there is need for the government to have open conversations with the people who have deep knowledge of the environment and have made massive economic contributions to the state.

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New Notes Policy: Lagos Judiciary Deplores Electronic Payments ... (Leadership Newspaper)

In its efforts to ease the suffering of lawyers and litigants the Lagos State Chief Judge, Kazeem Alogba resolved to strengthen the court alternative.

“Non -acceptance of old notes would be a catastrophe to the nation. One of the affected lawyers who did not want to mention his name confirmed that the registry at Osborne Division of Lagos High Court also rejected the old note and turned him back from filling his process. Business activities at the various court registries in Lagos State were grounded last week as court officials declined to receive old naira notes from litigants and lawyers on the ground that their official bank, Polaris, is no longer accepting it as legal tender.

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