
A Nigerian family has petitioned President Bola Tinubu over an alleged threat of eviction from an 8,000-square-metre parcel of land, naming politician James Faleke and a river basin development agency in the dispute, according to Premium Times. The family maintains that the land at the centre of the controversy is part of property covered by earlier litigation. Details of the petition and any responses from those named were not provided in the report.
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