TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HALTS BORDER WALL WELL DRILLING IN NEW MEXICO AFTER RANCHERS RAISE WATER CONCERNS. (PHOTO).
Trump administration halts border wall well drilling in New Mexico after ranchers raise water concerns The Trump administration has ordered contractors building a border wall in New Mexico to stop drilling new wells after ranchers raised concerns that groundwater pumping for construction could worsen drought conditions and threaten their livestock. The move comes as crews work to expand border barriers across four states as part of President Donald Trump’s immigration agenda. The project has received billions in federal funding and has faced criticism from residents, environmental groups and local officials over various impacts. U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which oversees construction, has said water is needed for concrete production, road construction and controlling dust. However, ranchers in southern New Mexico say water supplies are already under strain due to ongoing drought, forcing some to reduce their cattle herds. Russell Johnson, a rancher whose property bor...
According to sources,Justice Olabisi Ogungbesan of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on friday halted the ongoing coronation ceremony to fill the vacant stool of Ayangburen,the traditional ruler of Ikorodu Kingdom,in Lagos state Nigeria.The Ayangburen stool became vacant on August 1,2014 after the passage of Oba S.A.A Oyefusi.The ceremony to crown the new Ayangburen,which had been scheduled for saturday,August 15,2015 was halted by Justice Ogungbesan in the interest of Justice.Ogungbesan said she was satisfied from the evidence placed before the court that unquantifiable damage would be done if the coronation ceremony was allowed to go on as scheduled.She therefore restrained the Lagos state Governor,Mr Akinwunmi Ambode,or anyone acting under his authority,from going ahead on Saturday to crown the current Odofin of Ikorodu,Chief Kabiru shotebi,as the new Ayangburen of Ikorodu Kingdom.The judge also stopped Shotebi from either presenting himself for coronation or parading himself as the Ayangburen of Ikorodu,or actualising any recognition thereon as such,or exercising any of the Ayangburen royal function,pending the determination of a suit filed by Odupitan Eniola,from the Lambo branch of the Lasunwon chieftaincy family of Ikorodu Kingdom.The applicant claimed that it was the turn of the Lambo branch of the Lasunwon chieftaining family,from which he came,to present the next Ayangburen,adding that he had been nominated by the family to be crowned as the new Ayangburen at meetings held on September 7 and 21,2014.Eniola claimed that the Adegorushe family had already benefited after Shotebi became the Odofin of Ikorodu Kindom,following a court judgment on April 1,2009 in a suit marked IKD/57/2007.
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