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The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has been hit with an employment discrimination lawsuit by 20 new potential recruits, predominantly from the Southern part of Nigeria.The lawsuit, which was filed by activist lawyer, Festus Keyamo on behalf of the plaintiffs, detailed the denial of placement opportunities to the recruits who had been properly tested and had passed medical and physical fitness tests.The lawsuit is coming on the heels of growing concern that the Yar'Adua regime has been biased in favour of persons of northern origin, particularly his home state of Katsina, to whom it is generous with employment opportunities in the federal civil service.
Recently, the appointment of the Comptroller General of customs, 
Abdullahi Dikko Inde has been condemned as an example of nepotism by the Yar'Adua regime. Mr. Inde also faces questions of certificate forgery, and an editor of The Guardian who was reportedly working on the forgery story was assassinated in his home.Inde hails from Musawa local government area of Katsina. He is a distant cousin of Yar'Adua, and is married to the sister of Yar'Adua's wife.
Fresh court documents obtained by Saharareporters has found out how Nigeria's most corrupt Attorney General, Michael Aondoakaa participated in the controversial handover of the General Aviation Terminal (GAT) of the Murtala Mohammed Airport in Lagos.Aondoakaa, our impeccable source revealed, took huge bribe money from Mr. Wale Babalakin, the chairman of Bi -Courtney, the company now reputed for building sub-standard structures. Aondoakaa had worked with Bi-Courtney Aviation Services Limited to grant the company a 36-year concession to run the domestic wing of the Murtala Mohammed Airport after Bi-Courtney presented a carefully manipulated leas
e agreement that extended its tenure from 12 to 36 years.
During the Obasanjo's administration, Babalakin got Femi Fani Kayode to recommend that his lease on the airport be extended from 12 years to 36 years, but that proposal was rejected, but our sources revealed that Femi Fani Kayode did not reverse the lease agreements, leaving Bi-Courtney to use Aondoakaa to legitimize it.Aondoakaa, after receiving N400 million from Babalakin, got Bi-Courtney to sue his office for breach of contract after claiming that it had the right to manage both the MMA2 and the GAT for 36 years starting from April 2004.
The North has launched fresh moves to seize the current fallout of the reforms in the banking sector to significantly increase its shareholding in the sector. The move by the North was part of the resolution at its recent meeting held in Kaduna which communiqué was not released to the public.However reliable sources at the meeting told The Nation that the meeting decided on a comprehensive mobilisation of its elites towards taking control of a chunk in the banks' shares. To achieve the dream, the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF's National Working Committee, NWC has set up a committee to implement the plan. The Nation reliably gathered that the issue was part of the main agenda during the ACF National Working Committee's last two meetings in Kaduna . An aspect of the resolution obtained by our correspondent stated: “On issues concerning the banking sector, the (ACF) chairman stated that a committee was set up by the National Working Committee in order to address the issue. It stated that 'the North must take advantage of any opportunity of acquiring equities in the banking sector.” The decisions were contained in a resolution reached at the end of its July 1 meeting and signed by ACF's chairman, General I.B.M. Haruna (rtd) and its Secretary-General, Colonel Musa Shehu (rtd). Another meeting held on September 30 also reaffirmed this position. The Nation learnt that more rigorous discussion of the issue took place at the September meeting.The meeting presided over by General I.B.M. Haruna (rtd) exhaustively discussed issues surrounding mobilization of northerners for decisive investment towards acquiring worthwhile equity holdings in the banking industry
