Tag: DEMOLITION

Lagos: Reaction trails demolition of Alaba Rago Market

Aminu Imam
Alaba Rago Market

The Alaba Rago market, one of the major markets where Northerners carry out their businesses without harming anyone, was demolished between Tuesday and yesterday. A part of Alaba International Market, Alaba Rago, (rago tranlates to ram in Hausa), is primarily a livestock market which receives perhaps the largest of rams and goats transported from northern Nigeria into Lagos. While the Alaba Internati onal, also known as Alaba Electronics, is dominated by the highly enterprising and resilient Igbos, the Alaba Rago is a sort of economic community of Hausas in Lagos.The northerners not…

Read More

Demolition: Court gives Kano govt. one week to pay N30bn compensation

Aminu Imam

A Federal High Court has ordered the Kano State government to pay the sum of N30 billion within one week in a lawsuit brought by the Incorporated Trustees of ‘Masallacin Eid Shop Owners and Traders’ against the State government. Recall that the court had in September ordered the Kano State government to pay the ‘Incorporated Trustees of Masallacin Eid Shop Owners’ compensation for the unlawful demolition of their properties. The Kano State Governor, Abba Yusuf, on assumption of office in late May, ordered the demolition of shops, malls and a…

Read More

2023 Guber: Kaduna Traders Association endorses Ashiru

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

As the race for the 2023 Gubernatorial ambition to Sir Kashim Ibrahim House heats up, the Kaduna State Traders association, with members cutting across the state three senatorial districts, has endorsed Right Honourable Isa Ashiru Kudan of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaduna State, for the 11th March, 2023 governorship elections.  Ashiru was adopted as its candidate during a stakeholders meeting with the traders in Kaduna. The state chairman of the association, Alhaji Adamu Usman said the endorsement became necessary in the face of the harsh economic situation that…

Read More

Court stops Lagos A-G, others from forcefully taking over market

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday restrained the Office of Lagos Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice, and Kosofe Local Government from forcefully taking over the Alaba Section of Mile 12 Market. Justice Latifat Oluyemi gave the interim injunction pending determination of an application before the court. Other respondents in the suit number ID/6464GCMW/2022, include Ikosi/Isheri Local Council Development Area, Dr Chris Onyekachi, Total Value Integrated Services Ltd. and Lagos State Ministry of Physical Planning and Urban Development. The application was initiated by Incorporated Trustees of Orirere Community Leaders and Traders Association, Yeye…

Read More