Court instructs Fed Govt to regulate prices of goods, petroleum products

A Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos, has ordered President Bola Tinubu’s administration to fix pricing for goods and petroleum products within seven days.

Justice Ambose Lewis-Allagoa granted the order in response to an originating motion submitted and contested by the petitioner, human rights campaigner Femi Falana, SAN.

The judge granted the order, saying, “I have heard the applicant Femi Falana in a suit no FHC/L/CS/869/2023, and I have also discovered that despite the service of the originating motion on the respondents, namely the Attorney-General of the Federation and the Price Control Board, there is no opposition to it by way of counter affidavit, which is law that all the facts deposed in the affidavit attached to the originating motion are all deemed admitted.

“Consequently, all prayers that are sought for in the motion papers are hereby granted as prayed.”

The judgment ordered the Nigerian government to set the prices for milk, flour, salt, sugar, bicycles and spare parts, matches, motorbikes and spare parts, motor vehicles and spare parts, and petroleum goods such as diesel, petrol motor spirit (PMS), and kerosene.