A Federal High Court in Abuja has restrained Kogi State government from shutting down Dangote Cement factory in the Obajana area of the state. The court also stopped the state government from disrupting or suspending the activities of Dangote Coal Mines Ltd and Dangote Industries Ltd in Okaba, Ankpa Local Government Area and Olamaboro Local Government Area respectively. Justice Binta Nyako gave the interim order following two separate ex-parte motions moved by the counsel for the companies, Regina Okotie-Eboh.
In the second matter marked LD/6147C/17, an Ikeja Special Offences Court acquitted Nazaire and Finagnon of a four-count charge of conspiracy to commit forgery, forgery and uttering of a forged document