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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…

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…