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GTBank orders arrest of VeryDarkMan for complaining about alleged unauthorised deductions

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Nigerian social media personality and influencer, Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as VeryDarkMan, was on Friday arrested by the Nigerian police in Abuja on the orders of Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank), following his public complaints about alleged unauthorised debits from his mother’s bank account. Confirming the arrest on Friday, Barrister Deji Adeyanju, lawyer to VeryDarkMan, […]

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In the matter of GTBank’s persecution of poor bloggers, By Chidi Anselm Odinkalu

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By the time Muhammadu Buhari ran for a second presidential term in 2019, it seemed clear that the judicial process in many parts of the country had been actively co-opted in the intimidation of civic opponents of the government, both real and imagined. The case of Steven Kefas was a defining moment in that process. […]

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Kalu, GTBank: A Tale of Two Judgements, By Onikepo Braithwaite

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Supreme Court: Orji Kalu v EFCC I don’t know whether to say, as we say in Hausa, ‘Na sha mamaki’ (I was amazed)! or in Yoruba slang, ‘giri gbe mi’ (literal- convulsion carried me; I convulsed; slang – I was shocked) – because these days nothing really should be shocking; there do not seem to […]

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