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Legal luminary and respected elder statesman, Aare Afe Babalola (SAN) has charged newly elected senators and members, House of Representatives from Ekiti State to use their new status to attract development to the state, using necessary connections and lobbying processes. Aare Babalola, who…

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, says in spite of the challenges related to the February 25 presidential and National Assembly elections, many positives were recorded including the destruction of the myth of political structure. Speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today on Monday, Falana said…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Pius Akubo has rejected the appointment to the legal team of the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. A few days ago, the All Progressives Congress, APC, had constituted its Presidential Election Petition Team. Akubo was one of the 12 legal luminaries…

Femi Falana, SAN, the human rights lawyer, has written to the Nigeria Police Force and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He wrote to them to probe a video showing the Kogi Local Government Chairman, Joseph Omuya Salami destroying electoral materials and intimidating…

A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Aondoakaa (SAN), has maintained that before a candidate can be declared winner in a presidential election, that candidate must score 25 per cent of the votes cast in…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to abide by the judgement of the Supreme Court reversing the controversial naira redesign policy. Last October, with approval from Buhari, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) initiated the redesign of the…

A human rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN has said the presidential election of February 25, 2023, cannot be portrayed as a worthy legacy for Nigeria. Adegboruwa said there have been allegations and reported cases of suppression, intimidation and harassment of voters, corruption of…

Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Babatunde Ogala (SAN) has said that all those who participated in Saturday’s Presidential election are all winners. Ogala, who is a former National Legal Adviser of the APC, said this shortly after the APC candidate Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu…

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria has said that it is not mandatory for a presidential candidate to win the Federal Capital Territory to be declared the winner of the election. Peter Obi of the Labour Party won the presidential election in…

Some lawyers on Saturday faulted the open display of ballot papers by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) and the Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, after casting their votes for their preferred candidates. They stated that though it was wrong for the President…