Tag: Falana
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Twitter ban: SERAP drags Buhari to ECOWAS court, appoints Falana
Civil society organisation, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project; and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the government of the President Muhammadu Buhari at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja over the government’s suspension of microblogging platform, Twitter. The suit No ECW/CCJ/APP/23/21 was filed on Tuesday by Solicitor to SERAP and…
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Insecurity: Engage separatists to guarantee peace, Falana tells FG
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mr Femi Falana, has urged the Federal Government to engage various separatists groups in the country to douse tensions and agitations. Falana made the appeal while speaking at the South-West Zonal Public Hearing of the House of Representatives Special Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution in Lagos…
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Insecurity: Falana, Falz, others protest in Lagos
Revered human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), and his artiste son, Folarin, aka Falz, along with a huge number of Lagosians took to the streets on Monday to demonstrate against the insecurity and poverty destroying the country. The activists, under the aegis of the Peoples Alternative Political Movement, marched from the busy Ikeja Bus…
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Nigeria on verge of collapse, 2023 threatened – Falana
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana on Thursday said Nigeria is on the verge of collapse as the 2023 general election is threatened in view of series of attacks on INEC offices. Falana spoke at the final sitting of the Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution, South West, Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Zonal Public…
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Open grazing ban: You will be wasting precious time if you think presidency will act on your resolutions, Falana tells Southern Governors
Human rights lawyer and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has commended the southern governors for banning open grazing in the 17 southern states of the country. Falana, who spoke during a monitored Channels Television interview on Wednesday asked the governors to back their ban on open grazing with a legal instrument to…
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Nigeria now a failed state – Falana
Legal activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, declared, on Thursday, that Nigeria has become a failed state; regretting that the government has lost the monopoly of violence to the armed gangs. Besides, he pointed out that apart from the manipulation of ethnicity and religion and the use of brute force the federal…
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Why FG must leave Sunday Igboho alone now – Falana
Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has adduced reason why the Federal Government should leave self-acclaimed activist, Sunday Igboho alone. He said the nation has lots of issues facing her which must be addressed urgently instead of seeking to arrest Igboho. Falana, in a statement on Sunday said instead of asking the police to arrest Igboho…
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CCT Chairman liable to five-year jail term over ‘Biafran Boys’ comment
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has said the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) Chairman, Danladi Umar, risk a five-year jail term for using “Biafran boys” to describe the traders he had an altercation with when he assaulted a security guard at Banex Plaza in Abuja. Umar was caught on video punching a security…
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Falana blasts U.S. Govt: Your report on Lekki Toll Gate shootings contradictory, misleading
Popular human rights activist and lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) on Thursday said a report by the United States of America (U.S.A) on Lekki Toll Plaza killings is contradictory and misleading. He also said the report was prejudicial in view of the current sitting of the panel of enquiry set up by the Lagos State government…
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Alleged assault: Falana, Jibrin, Aisha Yesufu demand sack, prosecution of CCT Chairman
Eminent Nigerians have condemned the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), Umar Danladi for physically assaulting a security guard at Banex Plaza in Wuse, Abuja. They also called for his immediate dismissal and prosecution by the Nigerian government. Recall TheNewsGuru (TNG) reported how Mr Umar was caught in a viral video clip kicking…