Tag Archives: Femi Falana

By Raymond Ozoji  The Civil Society Committee for Anti-Fraud Election Security, CISCAES, in collaboration with other key stakeholders in election matters have held a world press conference where far-reaching resolutions were reached in order to protect the integrity of the forthcoming Osun state gubernatorial election. The media briefing which was held in Lagos, was a veritable platform for CISCAES and ...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the Plaintiffs and other Nigerians who are Twitter users, ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and 176 concerned Nigerians have filed a lawsuit against the government of President Muhammadu Buhari over “the unlawful suspension of Twitter in Nigeria, criminalization of Nigerians and other people using Twitter, and the escalating repression of human rights, particularly the rights to freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom in the country.” ...

The ECOWAS Court of Justice, Abuja has this morning heard arguments in the case brought by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) against the Federal Government seeking “justice and accountability for the authorities’ failure to prevent, account for and investigate killings, raping, maiming of Nigerians and other residents, and destruction of property across the country by herdsmen and other unknown perpetrators.” ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari requesting him to “urgently rescind your assent to the Companies and Allied Matters Act, 2020, [CAMA 2020], and to send the legislation back to the National Assembly to address its fundamental flaws, including by deleting the repressive provisions of the Act, particularly sections 839, 842, ...

Lagos lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, has threatened to institute legal action against The Nation newspaper in respect of an article titled, “More Trouble For Magu As New Facts On Re-looting Of Recovered Funds Emerge” which was published on the online version of the newspaper (https://thenationonline.net/breaking-more-trouble-for-Magu-as-new-facts-on-re-looting-of-recovered-funds-emerge/) in the early hours of today, Sunday the 12th day of July, 2020. In ...

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, on Thursday, insisted that the Southwest security outfit, Operation Amotekun, is illegal and unknown to the Nigerian Constitution. The minister said in a statement issued by his Special Assistant on Media, Dr Umar Gwandu, that no amount of sentiments would make the Federal Government abandon the path of ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent an open letter to Mrs Soyata Maiga, Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the commission’s members requesting them: “to urgently intervene and put pressure on the Nigerian authorities and their agents to immediately end the intimidation and harassment of detained journalist and activist Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare, ...

…northern group dissociated self from protest After a series of meetings in Abuja and Lagos, the organisers of the #RevolutionNow protests said they would go ahead with the protests today despite the arrest of the convener of the #RevolutionNow, Omoyele Sowore. The ‘RevolutionNow’ organisers said this just as a pro-Buhari group, #IStandWithBuhari, said it would also embark on a nationwide ...

Lagos lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, has faulted reports that the federal government has concluded arrangements to build RUGA or cattle colony in each state of the federation. He noted that the federal government, as usual, had not denied what he calls “the embarrassing story.” In a statement today, Falana said, “It is pertinent to point ...