Sowore detention order: We’ll consult with our client – Falana
Falana made the remark in an interview with newsmen shortly after Justice Nkeonye Maha of the Federal High Court, Abuja refused to grant a motion filed to challenge the detention ...
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Court fixes date for hearing in IMN’s case challenging proscription
Justice Nkeonye Maha adjourned the case after hearing the two counsels.
Court refuses to grant Sowore’s application challenging detention by DSS
Justice Nkeonye Maya, who declined all applications by Counsel to Sowore, Femi Falana (SAN), sent the case back to Justice Taiwo Taiwo for further hearing.
NBA should do more to stop illegal arrests and detention of Nigerians — Falana
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on the Nigerian Bar Association to “do more to hold governments at all levels to account for violations of human rights and ...
45 Days Detention: Falana in court, seeks date for hearing in Sowore’s application
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) on Thursday, prayed the Federal High Court, Abuja, to give him a date for hearing in his application regarding Mr Omoyele Sowore’s, Convener, #RevolutionNow ...
45 Days Detention: Falana in court, seeks date for hearing in Sowore’s application
Sowore. who is presently in detention had, on Aug 9, approached the Federal High Court, Abuja, seeking an order to vacate the ex parte order that gave the Department of ...
Utomi, Falana, others to discuss possible unrealistic features of SDGs at conference
Technocrats, educationists, and others are to converge at the University of Lagos to discuss the possible unrealistic features of the Sustainable Millennium Development Goals as regards education.
Soyinka, Falana, others lay wreath on Abiola’s grave
Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, says closure over the death of Chief MKO Abiola will be achieved when some of the challenges faced in the country are confronted and eliminated.
Falana urges ICPC, EFCC to probe $12b missing oil windfall under Babangida
Falana also sought “the investigation of the $16 billion allegedly purportedly spent on generating electricity in the country, as promised by President Muhammadu Buhari.”
Falana asks court to compel FG to recover $40b, N481b
Human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja in which he is seeking to compel the Muhammadu Buhari Administration to recover ...
Navy detaining two Officers, 20 others for nine months despite courts orders to release them
A civil rights group, Centre Against Impunity in Nigeria on Thursday, appeal to President Muhammadu Buhari to prevail on the Nigeria Navy to release some 22 Nigerians in their custody.
Falana wants labour, FG collaboration on corruption fight
Falana made the call in Abuja on Thursday at the opening of the Triennial National Delegates Conference of the Trade Union Congress.
Alleged kidnap: Counsel seeks to call Femi Falana as witness in Evans’ trial
The Lagos State Prosecuting counsel, Y.G Oshoala, in the trial of the suspected billionaire kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans, on Thursday filed an application seeking to add Femi Falana ...
Illegality of criminal libel in Nigeria, by Femi Falana
Under the British colonial regime the fundamental rights of Nigerians were brutally suppressed
Falana, others threaten public protest over insecurity
A team from the human rights community, under the banner of People’s Alternative Front, led Femi Falana (SAN), met with the Acting Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar Adamu, and ...
Falana to INEC: Why you must de-register 81 political parties
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has reminded the Independent National Electoral Commission that it has wide powers to de-register political parties that failed to scale some minimum electoral ...
INEC’s fresh powers to de-register political parties, by Femi Falana
In the case of Independent National Electoral Commission v. Balarabe Musa (2003) 10 WRN 1, the Supreme Court upheld the fundamental right of Nigerian citizens to form or belong to ...
SERAP drags FG, states to ECOWAS court over ‘attacks on journalists, bloggers’
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the federal government and state governments to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja over “the frequent and repressive application of the Cybercrime ...
Citizens’ power and access to information in Nigeria, by Femi Falana
Under section 22 of the 1999 Constitution the mass media is required to uphold the fundamental objectives of the State and uphold the responsibility and accountability of the government to ...
Demand compensation for victims of protests, Falana tells NLC
Femi Falana (SAN) has advised the Nigeria Labour Congress to seek compensation from the Federal Government for the families of people who died in the various protests in the country.
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