A Nigerian startup firm, Agriconnekt Services, has taken two international agencies and a Nigerian firm to a high court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, over an alleged breach of €1.3m contract.
When the matter came up for hearing on March 6, 2023, the court adjourned the matter to May 8, 2023 for pretrial, owing to the inability of first, second and third defendants (GIZ, Mercycorps and Coamana) to file their defence since November 2022.
The claimant said they were duly served and the defence counsel were fully present in court, and pleaded with the judge for time to file a defence before the next sitting.
In the suit, Agriconnekt is seeking $450,000 in damages as well as the payment of an additional $758,000, which the firm claimed was indicated in a budget to be allotted to it from a project called ‘Smartdevelopmenthack’, organised by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development,…
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