Old Naira: Supreme Court fixes March 3 for judgement
•Says it won't be scapegoat for FG, states •Breakdown of law, order, looms, Kano State cries out THE Supreme Court yesterday slated March 3 to deliver judgement on a consolidated suit 16 states filed to nullify the decision of the Federal Government to ban the use of old N200, N500 and N1000 banknotes as valid legal tenders. A seven-man panel of the apex court okayed the matter for judgement after all the parties adopted their briefs of arguments. The development came on a day the court warned that it would not allow either the federal government or the aggrieved states to turn the Judiciary to a scapegoat in the legal dispute trailing the new monetary policy that was introduced by the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. Head of the panel, Justice Inyang Okoro, bemoaned the fact that the dispute had placed the judiciary in the eye of the storm. "With the way this matter is going, they want to make the judiciary a scapegoat but we can't allow that. "We are going to hear ev...