NIWA wins landmark Supreme Court victory over waterways regulation

Lagos, others warned to stay off waterways The battle of who regulates all the activities on Nigerian inland waterways between Lagos State government and the Federal Government came to an end on Friday in Abuja as the Supreme Court ruled in favour of the Federal Government and its inland waterways regulatory agency, National Inland Waterways Authority, (NIWA). Justice Okoro, in a landmark judgment delivered on Friday, validated an earlier Federal High Court ruling which pronounced NIWA as the authentic authority over Nigerian inland waterways, and advised Lagos State government and its…

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