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Human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has asked the Federal Government to prosecute the suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Godwin Emefiele, and the management of the apex bank over the cash crunch in the country early this year. In…

Aare Afe Babalola, the founder of Afe Babalola University in Ado Ekiti, has commended the wife of Ekiti State Governor, Dr Olayemi Oyebanji, for her dedication to education over ceremonial activities. Babalola’s remarks came in response to Dr Oyebanji’s offer to teach and…

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,…