A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has stopped the Federal Government from releasing further monthly allocations to Rivers State. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik, in her judgment specifically restrained the Central Bank of Nigeria, from allowing the state to withdraw funds from the consolidated revenue account. Speaker of the Rivers State house of Assembly Martins Amaewhule and 26 members of the house had instituted the suit The plaintiffs had approached the court, praying it to withhold all federal monthly allocations meant for Rivers State. They predicated their case on the ground…
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