Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana yesterday called on President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the controversial nomination of four Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) from the Senate and ensure that the nominees were investigated by relevant security agencies.
According to Falana the nomination of…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria(SAN) Professor Wahab Olasupo Egbewole has been appointed the 12th vice chancellor of University of Ilorin.
Egbewole who has been in the institution for the past 25 years emerged vice chancellor of the institution after a vigorous selection process.
The…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Charles Ihua-Maduenyi is dead.
The Coordinator of the 2021 Class of Senior Advocates, Mr. Ade Agbola SAN told press that Ihua-Maduenyi died this afternoon in Abuja.
The Port Harcourt based senior lawyer was a Commissioner under Peter Odili…
The National ADR Society has appointed Emeka Obegolu, SAN as its Patron. In a letter, dated 2nd September, 2022, conveyed to the Learned Silk, the society state; “We write to you with extreme gratitude for your show of support in such short…
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has cautioned the Lagos State government not to usurp the powers conferred on local governments to fix and collect parking fees in the state, stressing that it remains the constitutional responsibility of the local governments to…
The Ondo state governor and former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, has kicked against the statement credited to Chief Niyi Akintola, SAN, referring to the immediate past President, of the association, Olumide Akpata, as a boy.
Akeredolu, in…
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the Lagos State Parking Authority (LASPA) lacks the power to fix and collect parking fees in the state.
The Lagos state government has commenced the collection of levies for cars parked outside the perimeter fence of companies.
In a letter…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and Chairman of the Yoruba Leaders Forum (Egbe Amofin Oodua), Isiaka Olagunju, has said that the Yoruba cannot abandon the Nigerian Bar Association.
Olagunju said this while reacting to comments by Niyi Akintola, SAN, on the unruly actions…
Professor Epiphany Azinge (SAN) has been appointed as the president of Commonwealth Secretariat Arbitral Tribunal (CSAT).
A statement signed by Secretary General, Commonwealth of Nations, Patricia Scotland, reads: “Pursuant to your nomination to, and selection by the Board of Governors of the Commonwealth…
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel to Maroko evictees, Mr. Femi Falana has told the embittered clients that were resettled in Ikota-Low Cost Housing Estate, along Lagos Epe Expressway to go and value their properties for adequate compensation after the…