Femi Falana, foremost human right activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has warned the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) to desist from foisting illegal processing on the union to conduct elections into the elective seats at the Lagos State Council of the union. Falana vowed to sue the NUJ in a petition dated November…
Abacha ‘Loot’: Femi Falana kicks, says States, LGs must get own share
…Tears Control of Infectious Disease Bill apart, dismisses it as superfluous. … Government may have to review strategies for COVID-19 lockdown. Fiery lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, has carpeted the Federal Government for its decision to deploy the recently received over $311 million stolen by a late dictator, Sani Abacha, and stashed away…
Femi Falana Blows Hot: Says Nigeria’s Human Rights Record Very Bad
Rails against Fellow Lawyers, Accuses them of being Comfortable with Impunity. Radical Lagos lawyer and dogged human rights activist, Femi Falana, senior advocate of Nigeria, SAN, has written off the human rights record of the Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC administration in Nigeria as abysmally low. Falana, in a no-holds-barred conversation Wednesday morning on…
Falana Backs Soyinka on Rejection of Sexual Offences Bill
Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has thrown his weight behind Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka’s disapproval of some provisions of the Sexual Offences Bill, 2015, passed by the Senate of the 7th National Assembly. The bill, which criminalises the defilement of children under 11 years, was among the 46 bills hurriedly passed by the Senate of…
Court Dismisses Suit Seeking Mbu’s Sack
Justice Ibrahim Buba of a Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the suit seeking to sack Mbu Joseph Mbu, assistant inspector general of Police over his alleged abuse of power. In his ruling on Tuesday, Buba said no court in Nigeria can declare the office of a police officer of the rank of AIG…
‘Falana And His Cohorts Not Better Than Ekiti Voters’ – Fayose
Ayodele Fayose, Ekiti State Governor-Electhas described the statement credited to Femi Falana,a Lagos based human rights lawyer as baseless and should not to be taken seriously. Falana was quotedas saying that some citizens of the state will go on self-exile if Fayose is eventually sworn in as governor of the state. In a reaction, Fayose,…
Mutiny: Falana, Agbakoba To Defend Condemned Soldiers
As mixed reactions continue to trail the death sentence recently passed on 12 of the 18 soldiers charged with mutiny by the Army, Femi Falana, lawyer and human rights activist, has said himself and Olisa Agbakoba, former president of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, have decided to take up the case and defend the soldiers…
Rallying Against Subsidy Scam
A coalition of human rights activists and non-governmental organisations has taken up the gauntlet to enforce the recovery of various huge sums of money diverted from the Federation Account It is a rare collaboration but one that has the common good of Nigerians as its sole objective. Femi Falana, fiery Lagos lawyer and counsel to…
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