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Pay ASUU Members Full Salaries, Falana Tells FG

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has advised President Muhammadu Buhari to direct public universities to pay members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) their full salaries. Some members of the union which recently called off their eight-month strike had complained…

07/11/2022

Decide Cases According To Laws And Facts – Olanipekun To Judges

A legal luminary, Chief Wole Olanipekun, on Thursday, advised judges in the country to always decided cases according to the laws and facts and their decision should not be influenced by the interest of those in power. Olanipekun who stated this in Akure,…

03/11/2022

Falana Hands NMDPRA Seven Days Ultimatum to Explain N17bn Petrol Tracking Facility

Human rights activist , Mr Femi Falana (SAN) has written the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) demanding an explanation on the N17 billion tracking device installed by the Petroleum Equalisation Fund (PEF) in 2018. In a letter titled: “Request for…

31/10/2022

Cash Gift Above N5m Constitutes Money Laundering – Sagay

The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Prof Itse Sagay, has said that “technically, giving anyone a gift of money above 5 million, outside the banking system, is an offence.” The Senior Advocate of Nigeria has, therefore, advised the…

28/10/2022

Mismanagement of Ecological Funds is a Crime Against Humanity – Falana

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana SAN has condemned the treatment of victims of flooding across the country, stating that, “During the covid 19 pandemic the Federal Government did not ask the citizens to hold the state governments to account for fund meant…

24/10/2022

Falana Seeks Inclusion Of Army, Air Force, Navy In Lagos Rights Committee

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has called for the inclusion of the Nigerian Army, Nigerian Air Force and Nigerian Navy in the proposed Lagos State Rights Committee. The senior advocate of Nigeria stated this at a public hearing organised by House Committee on…

21/10/2022

Babalola Seeks Special Debt Liquidating Funds to Offset Nigeria’s 41.60tr Debt

Founder of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN), has raised concerns over the country’s rising debt profile totalling about N41.60 trillion. Babalola said the increasing debt profile poses threats to the nation’s economic growth and development. The legal luminary noted that…

21/10/2022

Burning of Vessel Containing Stolen Crude Oil by Soldiers Criminal – Falana

Human Rights Activist, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), yesterday said the burning of a vessel loaded with stolen crude oil by the military in the Niger Delta last week was an attempt to cover up a crime. The vessel in question was reportedly arrested…

17/10/2022

Nigerian Government Shouldn’t Twist Appeal Court Ruling On Nnamdi Kanu – Falana

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has warned that the Nigerian government’s argument that there are pending charges against the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, at the Federal High Court was a "contemptuous mockery" of the…

15/10/2022

ASUU to Call Off Strike in Matter of Days – Falana

Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed that the union will call off its strike in a matter of days. Falana on Monday in Lagos State made the disclosure at a…

10/10/2022

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