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Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to demilitarise the country and send soldiers to the barracks as Nigerians head to the polls. He made the call in an opinion piece on Friday where he described the development as…

Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Chief Afe Babalola, SAN, has berated the federal government for the closure of all universities in Nigeria by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, as directed by the Executive Secretary, of the…

The law firm of Femi Falana, a human rights lawyer, has asked the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to provide details of the amount of the new naira notes that has  been disbursed to commercial banks in the country. The firm also…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Muiz Banire, has alleged that the governors insisting on the continued circulation of all the old naira notes as legal tender are doing so for the purpose of vote-buying. Banire alleged that the governors were planning to deceive…

A Former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Joseph B. Daudu SAN has countered critics of President Buhari’s intervention in the Naira swap crisis which has plagued the nation in the last few weeks. President Muhammadu Buhari is a nationwide broadcast this morning had issued new directives for…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, has said it is wrong for the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), to disobey the Supreme Court order on the old naira notes. The apex court had in an interim order restrained the Federal Government…

Lagos-based lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) on Thursday said President Muhammadu Buhari’s broadcast to the nation on the Naira redesign policy is a contempt of Court as he lacks the power to overrule the Supreme Court. In a statement…

Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor Godwin Emefiele should be jailed for contempt of the Supreme Court, an eminent professor of law, Itse Sagay (SAN), said yesterday. He believes spending some time behind bars will make the CBN helmsman realise the enormity of…

Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has lambasted the Central Bank of Nigeria for allegedly flouting the interim injunction of the Supreme Court suspending the implementation of the February 10 deadline on the use of the old banknotes. The CBN…

The President, Body of Benchers in Nigeria, Chief Wole Olanipekun (SAN), yesterday said the redesigned naira policy being carried out by the Federal Government is a good idea wrongly implemented. Olanipekun decried the rate at which Nigerians, especially people at the informal…