LAWYERS & LAW FIRMS

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…

Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has warned Nigerians against stigmatising or discriminating against people living with Human Immunodeficiency virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome. Falana said despite that HIV/AIDS had been in Nigeria for decades, many were ignorant…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Emeka Etiaba, says the problem associated with the naira redesign policy are caused by its implementation process. Speaking on Channels Television’s The 2023 Verdict on Friday, Etiaba said it could be possible that the newly printed notes are not reaching…

The interim Chairman of the Alliance on Surviving Covid-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), Femi Falana, in his latest communique has revealed why the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) must comply with the Supreme Court order in respect of the currency swap crisis. In his…

A lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, has explained the judgement of the Supreme Court restraining the Federal Government from implementing the Central Bank of Nigeria’s February 10 ultimatum for the old N200, N500 and N1,000 banknotes to cease being…

A coalition of labour movements and over 70 civil society groups, Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, under the leadership of human rights lawyer Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has urged the Central Bank of Nigeria to allow the spending of old Naira…

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has urged the Eswatini Government to investigate the killing of human rights advocate, Thulani Maseko in the country. Ms. Mary Lawlor, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders; Mr. Morris Tidball-Binz, Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial,…

A legal luminary, Dr. Reuben Atabo has picked Nomination Form for the 2023/2024 governorship election of Kogi State. Dr. Atabo had met with his ward PDP executives, in Okpatala, his country home, Local Government Party executives, as well as community stakeholders in Omala…