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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…

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…