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The Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (NBA-SPIDEL), Dr. Monday Ubani has urged African countries to deploy technology in order to enable the populace to elect quality leaders that will turn around its fortunes. Ubani spoke…

Officials of the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State have assaulted and tortured human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, using blunt instruments to forcefully shave off his beard according to Saharareporters. The lawyer was injured in the process. Inibehe was jailed by the…

Special Counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and its leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Mr Aloy Ejimakor, has declared that conduct of referendum is legal. The lawyer recalled that it was through referendum that Nigeria gained the old Adamawa Province and lost…

The Director of Abuja School of Social and Political Thoughts, Sam Amadi, has argued for a strategic approach to conserving the integrity of the judicial institution in Nigeria’s democracy, in such a way that protects democracy without inciting pushbacks from the more…

In recent weeks, some legal practitioners and commentators have exchanged thoughts on the implication of Section 115(D) of the Electoral Act (as amended 2022) on the issue of double nomination by Politicians. The section provides that “that any person who signs a…

Six senior lawyers in the country have thrown their weight behind some members of the National Assembly over their six-week ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately halt the rising insecurity in the country or face removal from office. The lawmakers, particularly some…

In his statement, Oluwemimo Ogunde SAN who is the Father to the embattled Partner of the law firm of Wole Olanipekun & Co categorically dissociated himself from the statement made by the Justice Reform Project where they called for the resignation of…

A prominent human rights activist and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has claimed that the reason the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) dragged other political parties in Rivers state to Court over primaries is because PDP wants to be sole…

Popular human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has condemned the National Assembly for going on vacation while the country is facing one of its biggest security challenges in a long time. Falana expressed dismay that the lawmakers were not taking the security crisis as…