Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja A human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), and nine others have been dragged before a Federal High Court in Abuja, over the set up of an independent panel to probe killings during the #EndSARS protests that rocked the country for three weeks in October last year. The plaintiff, Lucky Odigie through his […]
Popular human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has petitioned the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in The Gambia over the death sentence handed down to Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a musician in Kano state. Recall that Daily Times Nigeria reported Sharif-Aminu was sentenced to death in August after a Shari’a court in Kano found him guilty […]
Mr Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has said that police officers responsible for human rights abuses should be made to pay the court for personal damages. Falana said the reason human rights abuses remained prevalent was because when victims of rights violation got court judgments, it was the Nigeria Police Force, and […]
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has taken a dig at the revised Company and Allied Matters Act (CAMA), which lodges power to the supervising minister to remove the board of trustees of churches without authorization from the court. Falana made aired his view on a thread on Friends of TheNEWS WhatsApp platform.He said: “I […]
Recall that Daily Times gathered the news of Kashamu’s death was announced on Saturday after he succumbed to COVID-19 complications, according to former colleague Senator Ben Murray-Bruce. Since his death a lot of politicians, friends and associates had one thing or another to say among them are Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Femi Falana and so […]
Human Rights lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, has called for maximum security in Edo and Ondo states. Falana made this call on Wednesday during the Citizens’ Townhall on Voting Amidst COVID-19 ahead of the September 19 governorship elections in the two states. He noted that the move is necessary in […]
Lawyer and human rights crusader, Femi Falana on Thursday called on the federal government to enforce the Quarantine Act to check the spread of the coronavirus. Falana made the call in a statement in Lagos. He said that the declaration of a state of emergency would provide the basis for the prosecution of anyone flouting […]
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) said on Sunday, the Presidency lacked the power to stop people from protesting alleged poor handling of the country’s security challenges by the military. The Presidency had on Saturday accused some opposition politicians of mobilising Nigerians to hold protests against the service chiefs over growing insecurity in the land. […]
The late Dr Bekololari Ransome-Kuti had lived a life of activism. As a young medical doctor in the 1980s, he was in the forefront of the campaign of the Nigerian Medical Association for quality health care for the Nigerian people. He was also involved in the pro-democracy struggle under the defunct military junta. When Miss […]
Human Rights lawyer, Femi Falana has reacted to the statement made by Abubakar Malami, minister of justice and attorney-general of the federation, saying that he lacks powers to order the release of any detainee out of mercy. Falana said this while responding to Malami’s claim that he ordered the release of Omoyele Sowore, convener of […]
Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, has blasted human rights lawyer Femi Falana, saying that ‘he has boarded the free-publicity train, full of those seeking personal media attention in claiming the president is planning a third term in office, Garba Shehu in a statement on Monday night said: ‘The popularly acclaimed human rights lawyer and formerly for […]
The lawyer to #RevolutioNow protest convener, Omoyele Sowore, human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has said that Department of State Services (DSS) which he calls the SSS is currently fishing for evidence to nail Sowore. In spite of the directive of the AGF to take over the case the sss subjected Sowore to a 4-hour interrogation […]
Human Rights lawyer Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has revealed that the team leader of the Department of State Services, (DSS) apologised to Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu for disrupting court proceedings at the Federal High Court, Abuja last week. Falana told journalists that the DSS operatives were unable to defend their conduct, hence their subsequent apology to […]
Abuja – Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS), on Friday, re-arrested Omoyele Sowore, Convener, #RevolutionNow Protest, and his co-defendant, Olawale Bakare. Sowore and Bakare had resisted being rearrested by the officers of the security outfit shortly after Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu adjourned the day’s proceeding till Feb. 11, Feb. 12 and Feb. 13, 2020 […]
Rights activist, Femi Falana (SAN) has urged religious leaders and all Nigerians to join the federal government in ridding the country of corruption. He also called for total and equal justice for all Nigerians, saying such will ensure peace and national integration in the country. Falana, who noted that government alone cannot win the war […]
Lagos – Human Rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) has told the Federal Government to embark on a drive to recover Nigeria’s looted wealth to garner resources to fund the 2020 budget. Falana made the assertion in an interview at Imota, near Abeokuta on Sunday. He said the Nigerian Government must urgently seek other means of […]
Counsel to the convener of the #revolutionNow protest, Femi Falana SAN, is absent at the ongoing hearing of Mr Sowore Omoyele in Abuja court. Vanguard reports that Sowore and his co-defendant, Mr Olawale Bakare are being arraigned by the Federal Government on seven charges bordering on an alleged conspiracy to commit treason, money laundering, and […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Tuesday, has granted bail to Omoyele Sowore, Publisher of Sahara Reporters and convener of #RevolutionNow protest. According to Politics Nigeria, Sowore, who is the Former presidential Candidate of the African Action Congress, is also to submit his International passport. In his ruling, Justice Taiwo Taiwo said the […]
The court on Tuesday has dismissed the application by the Department of Social Security (DSS) to detain the publisher of SaharaReporters and convener of RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore. Recall that Sowore is being arraigned as a result of charges of Treasonable Felony and conspiring to topple the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari. The counsel to Sowore, […]
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 of West African States (ECOWAS) to obey Court orders. He said it is important the leaders “comply with judgments and orders of municipal courts and regional tribunals in the interest […]