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Get Valuation of Your Properties – Falana To Maroko Evictees

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…

31/08/2022 0Comments

‘That Boy’ Akpata Is Not A Real Lawyer – Niyi Akintola SAN

A Senior Advocate of Nigeria and a Leader of the Yoruba Lawyers Association, Egbe Amofin, Niyi Akintola has thrown a jab at the immediate past President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Olumide Akpata. According to Akintola, all Yoruba lawyers made a pact to…

29/08/2022 0Comments

Lagos Parking Levy Illegal – Falana

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, has lambasted the Lagos State Government over the implementation of the setback parking levy in the state. Falana on Sunday described the policy as illegal and urged the state government to withdraw it without delay. The Lagos State…

29/08/2022 0Comments

Ubani Threaten To Sue Buhari Over INEC REC Nominees

A former vice president of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) and Ikeja Branch of the body, Dr Monday Ubani, has threatened to drag President Buhari and the Senate to court if they do not withdraw and reject the nominations of REC nominees…

28/08/2022 0Comments

I Was Dehumanised in Prison – Inibehe Effiong

In an interview with Punch Newspapers, Inibehe Effion, the lawyer incarcerated for contempt by the Akwa Ibom Chief Judge shares his prison experience. Would you like to recount what your first day was like in detention in the Ikot Ekpene Custodial Facility in…

27/08/2022 0Comments

Judge has Power to Decide Contempt – Akwa Ibom AG

The Attorney-General of Akwa Ibom State, Uko Udom, SAN, on Tuesday, said that a judge had the power to decide what was contemptuous in his court. Udom stated this while answering a question on the incarcerated human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, who was…

23/08/2022 0Comments

Ajulo Accuses Malami of Plotting to Unlawfully Extradite Nigerian Citizen

An Abuja-based legal practitioner, Mr Kayode Ajulo has accused the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Malam Abubakar Malami, SAN, of plotting to extradite a Nigerian citizen, Adesina Lasisi to the United States of America, while the extradition…

19/08/2022 0Comments

Chief Bolaji Ayorinde Showers Praises On Late Olatunji Ayanlaja, SAN

A former Chairman of the Nigeria Legal Aid Council, Chief Bolaji Ayorinde, SAN, has paid glowing tribute to the late legal icon, Chief Olatunji Ayanlaja, SAN, who passed on Tuesday, 26th July 2022, at the age of 77. Ayorinde in a statement described…

16/08/2022 0Comments

Adegboruwa Condemns Humiliation Of Inibehe Effiong By Prison Officials

uman rights lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa (SAN) has condemned Nigerian prison officials for shaving off the beard of Inibehe Effiong in prison. The Lawyer reported on Thursday that officials of the Nigerian Correctional Centre in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State assaulted and tortured Effiong, using…

13/08/2022 0Comments

Public Office Holders Must End Medical Tourism – Falana

As Nigeria heads for the general election in 2023, a foremost human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, has said that until medical tourism by public office holders is stopped, the infrastructural challenge in government health facilities will not end. Falana, who stated this…

12/08/2022 0Comments

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