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Nigerian Lawyers Drag China To Court Over COVID-19, Demands $200b Damages by tonapuck: 5:58pm On Apr 27, 2020 |
A coalition of Nigerian legal practitioners has dragged the People’s Republic of China to court over the effects of the Coronavirus outbreak on the West African giant. The lawyers are demanding $200 billion as damages for the “loss of lives, economic strangulation, trauma, hardship, social disorientation, mental torture and disruption of the normal daily existence of people in Nigeria.” This was contained in a statement on Sunday by the lead prosecutor, Prof. Epiphany Azinge (SAN) Azinge’s law firm, Azinge, and Azinge, is championing the legal action, stressing that they had concluded pleadings for the class action against the Chinese government. The statement added, “The team of legal experts planned a two-phase line of action-: first is with the federal high court of Nigeria and secondly to persuade the government of Federal Republic of Nigeria to institute a state action against the People’s Republic of China at the International Court of Justice at the Hague “The legal experts will be claiming damages to the tune of 200billion dollars, the Chinese Government will be served through its Embassy in Nigeria.” Azinge is currently a member of the Commonwealth Arbitral Tribunal London, representing Nigeria and Africa.
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Re: Nigerian Lawyers Drag China To Court Over COVID-19, Demands $200b Damages by adewumiopeyemi(m): 6:01pm On Apr 27, 2020 |
I laugh
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Re: Nigerian Lawyers Drag China To Court Over COVID-19, Demands $200b Damages by DATACUG00000(m): 6:51pm On Apr 27, 2020 |
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Re: Nigerian Lawyers Drag China To Court Over COVID-19, Demands $200b Damages by heendrix(m): 6:54pm On Apr 27, 2020 |
For Nigeria, China would be like Pay up ur Loans fest Mai we comot from it pay you |
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