A Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna has been told that the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, Sheikh Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, and his...
Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has called on the Nigerian youth to start preparing themselves for leadership positions well ahead of the 2023 elections. He made these...
Fiery lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana is of the opinion that the controversial Ruga settlement scheme which has been suspended by the...
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the last election, Atiku Abubakar, has reacted to the story of a senator of the party,...
Human rights activist, Femi Falana, has asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to compel the Muhammadu Buhari administration to recover the sum of $40 billion...
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Ayuba Wabba on Thursday said workers are ready to fight tooth and nail with governors, who are not...
Swiss authorities have filed a suit against Nigeria at the international court over the Navy’s detention of its vessel, San Padre Pio. San Padre Pio and...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has cautioned judges against imposing fines on public interest litigation, stating that they are unconstitutional. In a statement on Sunday, Falana...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has accused the Nigerian navy of flouting the order of President Muhammadu Buhari to release the 40 Nigerians “illegally detained” by...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has asked that President Muhammadu Buhari and other top holders of public offices be barred from foreign trips until the insecurity...
Human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has criticized the Nigerian Navy’s continued detention of 15 civilians and military officers for seven months...
Nigerian human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has expressed regret that President Muhammadu Buhari is refusing to obey court orders. According to him, the thought that a...
Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has described Nigeria as a failed state, lamenting that the government of the country cannot guarantee the security of its...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has threatened to sue the minister of state for petroleum resources, Ibe Kachikwu, if he fails to provide him with...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has accused Nigerian courts of legalising vote-buying and other violations of the provisions of the electoral act. He cited an Appeal...
The Family of Mrs Omolara Kalejaiye has threatened to drag the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital (LASUTH) to court for alleged unethical conduct of its personnel....
By Fredrick Nwabufo… You must understand that some things do not happen naturally here. Protests, in particular, are not organic or “an act of God”, at...
A leading human rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana has said the Independent National Electoral Commission has the power to de-register political...
Lagos based lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has described the 2019 general elections as an ‘expensive joke’. Falana, who lamented what happened during...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has backed the decision of the presidential candidate of thed Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the February 23 elections...
Foremost human rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has lashed out at the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Danladi...
Lawyer to Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, the leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) Femi Falana has said his client who is currently in detention with his...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has accused the Federal government of acting on sentiments over the prosecution of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice...
Popular human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, on Thursday, flayed the Nigerian police for the continuous siege on the residence of the lawmaker representing Kogi...
Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana SAN has asked the Nigerian Army to end the “attack, harassment and intimidation of Amnesty International and focus instead on...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has faulted the usage of trillions of naira from looted funds recovered under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The monies...
Nigerian human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) on Wednesday called on President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the member states of the Economic Community...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has called on the federal government to “move swiftly” in recovering unpaid taxes by some evading companies in the...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has alleged that $12.7 billion worth of crude oil was stolen from the country between 2011 and 2014. Falana made the...
Lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, has advised politicians seeking political positions in the forthcoming 2019 general elections to listen to Fela’s music. He gave...
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has told a Lagos based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), that it cannot respond to his request on fuel...
By Immanuel James Ibe-Anyanwu… “Gani Fawehinmi, Nigeria’s conscience, dies at 71”, read The Guardian’s apt front-page headline. In less than a decade after his death, Gani’s...
The notion by Nigerians that the National Assembly cannot seat without its symbol of authority, the Mace, has been debunked by the Lagos State based human...
Lagos State based lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has demanded that the Federal Government explain how fuel subsidy payment that used to be...
A Lagos based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has instituted a case against the Federal Government before the Federal High Court in Abuja for failing...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has lambasted the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), for rejecting request for accountability sought under the Freedom of Information Request...
Lagos State lawyer and human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, on Friday regretted that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration lacks the will to fight corruption in...
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has accused the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) of failing to remit over $20.2 billion since the return of democracy...
As issues of restructuring continue to dominate the national discourse, a Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN), has explained that the actual restructuring...
The Chairman, Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), and prominent lawyer, Femi Falana have called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to arrest...
A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has described as unconstitutional and illegal the alleged invasion of the home of the leader of the indigenous People of...
Lagos based human rights activist and lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has joined those demanding for a return to the 1963 Constitution and gave reasons the country...
Lagos lawyer and human rights activist Femi Falana (SAN) has called on the Federal Government to sue the National Assembly to the Supreme Court for inserting...
The Co-Convener of the Coalition of Northern Groups and leader of Arewa Consultative Youth Forum, Shettima Yerima, has accused human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, of...
A Lagos based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has asked Acting President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) to, in the light of the resolution of President Muhammadu...
A Senior Advocated of Nigeria and human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has landed hard on Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Garba...
The Senate says that a human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), is simply seeking relevance for his alleged statement that Acting President Yemi Osinbajo should not...
A human rights activist and constitutional lawyer, Mr Femi Falana has called on the acting President, Yemi Osinbajo not to append his signature to the 2017...
A human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana (SAN), has urged Lagos State Governor Akinwunmi Ambode not to sign the warrant of death authorising the killing of...
By Femi Falana Introduction Following the loss of corruption cases last week many Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have agreed with the Federal Government that corruption is...