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.
Browsing: Femi Falana
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 also sought “the investigation of the $16 billion allegedly purportedly spent on generating electricity in the country, as promised by President Muhammadu Buhari.”
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 the sum of $40 billion and N481 billion based on the audit of the extractive industry carried out by the Nigeria Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, an agency of the Federal Government.
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 made the call in Abuja on Thursday at the opening of the Triennial National Delegates Conference of the Trade Union Congress.
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 SAN, as a witness in the case.
Under the British colonial regime the fundamental rights of Nigerians were brutally suppressed
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 other top police officers at the Police Force Headquarters Abuja on Thursday.
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 tests.
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 political parties of their choice in accordance with Section 40 of the 1999 Constitution of the Republic.
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 Act to harass, intimidate, arbitrarily arrest, detain, and unfairly prosecute anyone found publishing views or facts perceived to be critical of the government at the federal and state levels and government officials”.
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 the people.
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.
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has said both the Federal Government, National Judicial Council and the Nigerian Bar Association erred in the handling of the case of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen.
Human rights lawyer, Chief Femi Falana (SAN), has described Friday’s suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen, as illegal.
The Nigerian Communications Commission has faulted the claim by Lagos lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, that the country was losing about N600 billion from the telecommunications industry.
Top prominent human rights organisations and individuals, led by Femi Falana (SAN), have asked the Federal Government to end the killings in Zamfara State.
Falana’s position was contained in a statement in Lagos on Wednesday morning.
In a counter-affidavit deposed to by one Ayodele Otedola, a litigation clerk in the Federal Ministry of Works, on behalf of the Minister, it was stated that the gridlock on the road “is always caused by Tanker Drivers who normally follow the route to NPA for the purpose of loading and offloading their goods” and that the Minister’s “effort to clear the road and remove the trailers and tankers has not been easy but that effort has been redoubled to achieve this goal”.