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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Robert Clark, says nothing may come out of the appeal of Wednesday’s judgment of the Presidential Election Petitions Court by the petitioners who have vowed to approach the Supreme Court. “My personal view has been enriched by past experience in…

A constitutional lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), has warned that Nigeria and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) should jettison any form of military intervention in Niger Republic. He gave the warning Friday in Abuja at a symposium on International Humanitarian Law…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, claims that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) fought opponents of President Bola Tinubu at the Presidential Election Tribunal (PEPT) and cannot organise credible polls. He made the comment in a statement he released following…

There was a mild drama at the Court of Appeal, the venue of the Presidential Election Petitions Court on Wednesday when the justices delivering judgments shut down a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Charles Uwensuyi-Edosomwan,…

Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, says the judiciary is facing an unprecedented blackmail and intimation over the presidential election petitions, saying that the blackmail is not necessary since there is still opportunity for an appeal at the Supreme Court. Falana, who…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has asked the Department of State Services (DSS) to release detained suspended Chairman of the Ijebu East Local Government in Ogun State, Wale Adedayo. The council boss had accused Governor Dapo Abiodun of diverting the…

Legal luminary and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has called for the suspension of flight operations into Nigeria by British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, until such a time when Nigeria’s Air Peace is allowed to also fly on the Lagos-London route,…

Mohammed Adoke, former attorney-general of the federation (AGF), says Nigerians deserve to know the “whole truth” on the controversy surrounding the oil prospecting licence 245 known as the OPL 245 deal. Adoke, who was the AGF and minister of justice between 2010…

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has called on the Nigerian business community to insist on transacting business in naira, including using the same to pay for goods imported from China. In a statement made available to the media on Monday, Falana…