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On October 18, 2025, it was reported in the media that some military officers ranging in rank from Captain to Brigadier General were arrested by the Defence Intelligence Agency for allegedly holding secret meetings to topple the government. The online news medium also linked the cancellation of the October 1 Independence Day parade to the […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has lamented that politics in Nigeria is now in the hands of criminals and touts, who care little about investing in the country’s economic prosperity and the well-being of its citizens. He equally decried what he described as bad governance and sheer infrastructural decay in the Southwest, […]
Continue ReadingNigerian lawyer and rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has filed a $5 million (Five Million US Dollars) lawsuit before a Lagos High Court against the US-based Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc., over an alleged invasion of his privacy. In the originating summons, brought pursuant to Section 37 of the 1999 Constitution (as amended), Sections […]
Continue ReadingBetween 1983 and 1987, the radical military regime of Captain Thomas Sankara changed the colonial name of Upper Volta to Burkina Faso. While the courts bequeathed by the former French colonial overlords continued to dispense justice to the elite, people’s tribunals were established to decide cases on the basis of African jurisprudence. The Tribunal were […]
Continue ReadingSection 31 of the 1979 Constitution provided that every individual was entitled to respect for the dignity of his person, and accordingly no person shall be subject to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment. Article 5 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights (Ratification and Enforcement) Act Cap A9 Laws of the […]
Continue ReadingUpon the inauguration of the Bola Tinubu administration last year, new SUVs were purchased and distributed to the members of the Federal Executive Council and the National Assembly. Such public officers were never assembled in a public place to receive the vehicles. At about the same time, judges whose cars were replaced after about 10 […]
Continue ReadingA few weeks ago, President Bola Tinubu ordered the immediate termination of the treason charge against 119 protesters standing trial for treason arising from the August 1-8, 2024 protests against bad governance and hardship in the country. Consequently, the Attorney-general of the Federation, Mr. Lateef Fagbemi SAN applied for the withdrawal of the charges. Since […]
Continue ReadingNot a few defenders of neoliberalism have criticised the judgment of the Federal High Court which has mandated the Federal Government to fix the prices of essential commodities in the country. The criticism of the judgment is based on the fact that Nigeria is a capitalist country. It is surprising that such critics are not […]
Continue ReadingUnder the current political dispensation, the national economy is firmly controlled by the federal government. Apart from the management of the mineral resources owned by the Nigerian people, the federal government conducts domestic and foreign affairs on behalf of the country. Although the Constitution has been amended several times since 1999 by the nation’s legislative […]
Continue ReadingBetween 2022 and 2023, general elections were conducted by electoral bodies in some African countries, including Angola, Kenya, and Nigeria. The petitions filed against the results of the presidential elections declared by the election management bodies in Angola and Kenya were determined within 14 days by the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court respectively. Even […]
Continue ReadingIn a statement, the Lagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana, SAN, has on Sunday, warned the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that it is legally obligated to seek the approval of the United Nations Security Council to undertake any military interventions in Niger Republic. See the full statement below: “LEGAL REQUIREMENTS […]
Continue Reading1. Diversion of N40 billion from Federation Account A company, Continental Transfert Technique had been hired by the Ministry of Interior to collect the Combined Expatriate Residence Permit and Alien Card (CERPAC) Fee of $2,000 per annum from every expatriate in Nigeria. The revenue from 2019 comes to an average of N40 billion per annum. […]
Continue ReadingOut of sheer insensitivity coupled with impunity, the members of the National Assembly, regardless of political affliation, conspired to breach the relevant provisions of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 by padding the Supplementary Appropriation Bill, 2023 to provide the so called palliative of N70 billion for 306 newly elected members. While […]
Continue ReadingLagos lawyer and human rights activist, Femi Falana SAN, has alleged that about N17bn allocated to stop oil theft has been diverted While delivering his goodwill message in Lagos State Thursday, Falana also stated that the Ministry of Niger Delta ought to be under the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), and not the other way […]
Continue ReadingAs part of the fundamental objectives of the neocolonial State, the participation of the people in their government is guaranteed in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Electoral Act. The implication is that elected officials are mandatorily required to have their mandate renewed periodically through fair and free elections. Nigeria is said […]
Continue ReadingOnce in a while providence provides us the privilege of convergence when the Christian season of reconciliation and the the Ramadan overlap. This year it comes as the country write. On April 6, 2022, a former President of Burkina Faso, Mr. Blaise Compaore, was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in […]
Continue ReadingSegun Sango When our set in the Alliance of Progressive Students (ALPS) left the Obafemi Awolowo University in June 1981, I was confident that Segun Sango and other comrades in the student movement would keep up the struggle. As expected Segun and other leading cadres rebuilt the ALPS into a more formidable force. Even though […]
Continue ReadingAt the last Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, May 11, President Muhammadu Buhari directed all ministers and other political appointees who aspire to contest for elective offices in the 2023 general elections to resign their appointments. In compliance with the directive, nine ministers resigned their appointments. The nine former ministers are Rotimi Amaechi, Godswill Akpabio, Ogbonnaya […]
Continue ReadingOn Tuesday, March 8, 2022, The Federal High Court (coram Inyang Ekwo J.) sacked the Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, along with 15 lawmakers in the State over their defection from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). In sacking the governor and his deputy, the learned […]
Continue ReadingNotwithstanding the several decisions of domestic and regional courts which have upheld the socioeconomic rights of the people, lawyers and judges have continued to give the misleading impression that only civil and political aspects of fundamental rights are enforceable in Nigeria. Thus, the victims of violations of socio-economic rights have been left without access to […]
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