Only the 144,766 federal civil servants under the Consolidated Public Service Salary Structure will benefit from the new 40 per cent peculiar allowance introduced by the Federal Government. This implies that other workers under the employment of the Federal Government but operating under different salary structures will not benefit. For instance, university workers, who are under the Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure, and medical doctors, who work for the Federal Government, will also not benefit from the pay rise as they are under the Consolidated Medical Salary Scale. Other categories of federal workers who will not benefit from the peculiar…

A federal high court in Abuja has held that some sections of the Companies and Allied Matters Act, (CAMA) 2020 violate the fundamental human rights of Nigerian citizens. Delivering judgement in a suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1076/2020, James Omotosho, presiding judge, nullified sections 839, 842, 843, 844, 845, 846, 847, 848 and 851 of CAMA 2020. President Muhammadu Buhari had, on August 7, signed CAMA into law. Emmanuel Ekpenyong, an Abuja-based lawyer, had instituted a suit challenging the Act. In the originating summons dated and filed on August 31, 2020, Ekpenyong prayed the court to determine whether the provisions of sections 839,…

Foreign states start evacuations from Sudan as battle rages Some foreign nationals began evacuating from a Red Sea port in Sudan on Saturday, even as air strikes again rocked the capital Khartoum after a week of fighting between rival commanders that has killed hundreds of civilians across the nation. The bloody onslaught of urban warfare has trapped large numbers in the Sudanese capital. The airport has been repeatedly targeted and many residents have been unable to leave their homes or get out of the city to safer areas. The United Nations and foreign states have urged rival military leaders to…

RUSSIAN PERSPECTIVE China questions sovereignty of ex-Soviet states China’s ambassador to France has called into question the sovereignty of Ukraine and other former Soviet republics, suggesting that their hazy status under international law makes it difficult to resolve conflicts over disputed territories such as Crimea. “Even these countries of the former Soviet Union don’t have effective status in international law because there is no international agreement to make their status as a sovereign country concrete,” Ambassador Lu Shaye said on Saturday in an interview with French broadcaster LCI. Asked by Swiss journalist Darius Rochebin whether Crimea is Ukrainian territory, Lu…