Falana, who spoke on behalf of a group, Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond (ASCAB), made the appeal in a memoranda to the National Assembly during the South-West Zonal Public Hearing on the 1999 Constitutional Review in Lagos on Thursday.
Browsing: Femi Falana (SAN)
At the conference held in Abuja, the professional groups committed to collaborating with anti-corruption institutions and civil society working on anti-corruption.
Falana made the charge while speaking with newsmen at the Lying-in-State, Service of Songs and Tributes for the late spokesman for the pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, in Lagos.
In a statement on Wednesday, the chairman of the group, Femi Falana (SAN), said it is contradictory for the president to go abroad for medicare when billions of naira are allocated to the health sector every year, apart from the huge amount of money credited to the Presidential Clinic in Aso Rock.
They are to testify in the ongoing case against Abdulrasheed Maina,
Justice Ahmed Mohammed gave the ruling following the agreement reached by parties in the suit to amicably resolve the matter.
The Alliance for Survival of COVID-19 and Beyond in a statement at the weekend asked victims of human rights abuses to approach the independent panel set up by the coalition in the wake of the nationwide protests.
The group tasked the Federal Government to ensure judicious use of the fund meant for the operatives.
Garba, who was earlier involved in an altercation with media guru, Bashorun Dele Momodu, also over the protest, had on Tuesday filed a $1 billion suit against the Twitter CEO at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Morán, who has a dual Colombian and Venezuelan nationality and has been in detention since his arrest by Cape Verde authorities four months ago, urged the court to suspend the extradition process as a precautionary measure pending the court’s decision on the merits.
The group urged the Federal Government to withdraw plans to use soldiers to quell the protests that have rocked major cities across Nigeria.
Falana, who made this submission in his contribution to a discussion on a WhatsApp group, said even if Nigeria returns to regional government as being canvassed and there is still no economic restructuring, there can never be development.
A Lagos-based human rights campaigner, Femi Falana (SAN), has advised the ECOWAS Court of Justice located in Abuja to facilitate online filing processes.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded for explanation from the Federal Government on the strange deaths and burials in Kano State.
The Special Roundtable session, which creates auspices for honouring real Heroes and Heroines of the June 12 pro democracy struggle in Nigeria, has also been designed to host leading presidential aspirants contesting in the 2019 elections in Nigeria
The $470 million contract awarded to ZTE, (a Chinese company) in 2009 by the federal government for the construction of CCTV cameras in Abuja and Lagos has been abandoned. Hence, the cameras which were installed did not capture the criminals who recently launched bomb attacks in Abuja and killed scores of citizens. Since the contract was not executed the federal government should recover the contract sum of $470 million
He said: “Right now, the regular courts are subjecting corruption and drug related cases to frivolous adjournments instead of hearing them day by day as stipulated by the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015
In the letter addressed to the Prosecutor of the ICC, Fatou Bensouda, Falana wrote: “We are a firm of civil rights lawyers based in Lagos, Nigeria. We are the defence counsel for the majority of the members of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Nigeria who were charged with mutiny, cowardly behaviour and sundry offences before the courts-martial instituted by the former military authorities. As we shall demonstrate anon, the only “offence” proved against our clients in the military courts was that they had the temerity to demand for weapons to fight the well equipped troops of the Boko Haram sect
Human right lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), on Monday, said President Muhammadu Buhari was under pressure by some political forces in…
He was reacting to a publication in The Punch newspaper of Tuesday in which Falana was quoted as claiming that people were leaving Ekiti State because they were afraid of what would happen to them after Fayose’s inauguration as governor