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You Owe Us An Apology, Rilwanu Lukman’s Family Tells Nigeria’s Attorney-General, Malami

The family of Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Rilwanu Lukman, has called on Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to apologise to them over his allegation that the late minister approved the Process and Industrial Development Limited deal, a report by TheCable said. A 2010 contractual agreement between Nigeria and P&ID to build a natural gas-processing plant in Calabar, Cross River State, broke down irretrievably and the London Commercial Court, converting an arbitration decision to judgment, found Nigeria guilty of breach of contract. Nigeria, in a frantic move to wriggle out of the judgment debt, filed a successful lawsuit at its own Federal High Court, which set aside the judgment of the UK court. P&ID did not partake at the proceedings, which happened at the Lagos Federal High Court, alleging that the court lacked jurisdiction on the case.  The company’s argument seems meritorious because as far back as 2016, parties agreed on UK as the venue

Blasphemy: Court Officials Frustrate Kano Musician’s Appeal

Yahaya Sharif Aminu Attempts to appeal the death sentence given to a musician, Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, was stalled again on Tuesday as officials of the Upper Sharia Court in Kano State refused to make available certified true copies of the judgment. Yahaya Sharif Aminu According to PUNCH, Sharif-Aminu, who was sentenced to death on August 10, 2020, for alleged blasphemy against Prophet Mohammed, was given 30 days by the court to appeal the judgment, meaning that the time would lapse on Wednesday, September 9. For the appeal to be accepted at the Court of Appeal, the convict is expected to personally sign the notice of the appeal while certified copies of the original judgment will be attached to it. But investigation by the newspaper showed that Sharif-Aminu had been denied access to his lawyers while Sharia court officials had also failed to provide copies of the judgment. See Also Breaking News BREAKING: We'll Challenge Continued Detention Of Mubarak Bala Over Blasph

Untapped $500m Funding Opportunity For Nigeria Health Sector By Toluwani Oluwatola

Osagie Ehanire, Health Minister of Nigeria The Nigerian health sector is underfunded. While this is no new development, the COVID-19 pandemic brought this to the fore once again. In a previous article, I observed that the allocation to the health sector in the past five years had averaged less than five per cent of total budgetary allocation in flagrant disobedience to the 2001 Abuja declaration made on our soil. While increased efficiency and transparency within the health sector can make us maximise what we have at the moment, we will not experience much progress until the issue of perpetual underfunding is dealt with. As a speaker at the “Funding the COVID-19 Response in Nigeria” webinar organised by Nigeria Health Watch, Dr Ola Brown ended on a dominant note by stating that: “To solve the issue of underfunding, we need to find a way to implement compulsory taxation to create a prepayment pool for healthcare in the country”. She then went on to give the instance of how “telec