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Lagos High Court Issues Restraining Order Over Defamatory Social Media Publications A Lagos State High Court has ordered controversial social media figure Martin Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, to remove…
Demands Retraction and Apology for False Accusations Nigerian rapper and activist Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to social media influencer VeryDarkMan, demanding the retraction…
Renowned Senior Advocates of Nigeria, Femi Falana and Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, who are serving as legal representatives for Afrobeat star Seun Kuti, have emphasized that their client's recent trip to Switzerland is…
Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has called on Nigerians to stop selling their crude oil in dollars and instead switch to the national currency, the naira. Falana made the comments in an interview with Channels…
Human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana(SAN) say the February 25 elections have shattered many long-standing myths in Nigeria's political space. Despite facing various challenges during the polls, Falana pointed…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) says Nigerians are not sure that the forthcoming 2023 general elections will hold. Falana stated this while reacting to the naira and fuel scarcity in the country during an…
Human Right Lawyer, Femi Falana says he is surprised that the president, Mohammadu Buhari has not called the Department of State Services (DSS), to order over its alleged case against Godwin Emefiele, governor of the…
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, says the newly redesigned Naira note may be declared illegal in court. He said the new naira will be considered illegal if President Muhammadu Buhari did not seek approval of the…
Human right lawyer and senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana said the registration of the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA) by the federal government is illegal. He said the labor laws in Nigeria…
The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, and a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, yesterday, backed the move by National Assembly members to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over his failure to end terrorism in the…
The Federal Government of Nigeria has issued a notice of discontinuance in the murder case of Timothy Oludare Adegoke The notice, which was contained in charge number CR/015/2022, dated February 7, 2022, asked the…
The family of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), a pupil of the Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, who died under controversial circumstances, has demanded a coroner inquest into his death. The news of Sylvester’s death…
Commodore Kunle Olawunmi (rtd), who was invited by Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) over anti-Buhari interview on Channels Television, Tuesday, honoured the invitation in the company of his lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN).…
The Presidency, on Tuesday, commended security agencies on the re-arrest and repatriation of leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu; as well as the recent attack by the Department of State…
Nigerian Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Femi Falana SAN has condemned the appointment of Lauretta Onochie, an aide to President Muhammadu Buhari as a member of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)…
The Kano state government and the federal government have been dragged to the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in Banjul, The Gambia, following a petition written by human rights activist, Femi Falana…
Former Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has dared Vice President Yemi Osinbajo to sue him over the N90 billion he (Frank) claims was used in the last general elections. Osinbajo…
The Department of State Security (DSS) has continued to hold Omoyele Sowore after fulfilling his bail condition and his lawyer, Femi Falana has been denied access to see him. It'd be recalled that only yesterday…
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday, September 24 has ignored the application of the DSS to further detain Omoyele Sowore and ordered his immediate release. Justice Taiwo Taiwo, who presided over the ruling,…
In a fresh application filed before the Federal High Court in Abuja, Mr Omoyele Sowore, Convener of #RevolutionNow protest, who is being held by the Department of State Services, has asked for bail in liberal terms.…
