A rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has advised the Presidency to tell Nigerians more about President Muhammadu Buhari’s health status. Speaking on Channels TV’s Sunday Politics, Falana said Nigerians need to know the state of the President’s health. “Under the Freedom of Information Act, the right to health is supposed […]
Continue ReadingBy Femi FalanaThe State Security Service (SSS) now the Department of State Services, raided the official quarters of judges at Abuja, Gombe, Kano and Port Harcourt last Friday night. During the raid, the homes of the judges were searched while some of them were arrested and taken away. They have since been detained by the SSS. In […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has written a letter to Yakubu Dogara, speaker of the house of representatives, asking him to stop the ongoing probe against Abdulmumin Jibrin, former chairman appropriations.Jibrin is expected to appear before the ethics and priviledges committee on Monday, but in a letter dated September 23, Falana, who is also Jibrin’s […]
Continue ReadingMr. Femi Falana (SAN), has called for investigation and prosecution of federal lawmakers involved in the padding of the 2016 budget, but said the Department of State Service does not have the moral and legal rights to carry out the probe. The Human rights lawyer made his position known in a statement on Sunday, stating that […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has disclosed how he was offered one million pounds (N405 million) to launder money for a former governor.Mr. Falana explained that the governor decided to choose the lawyer because, according to him; “nobody will suspect you”. He revealed this in the current edition of ALERT, a monthly pull-out by the […]
Continue ReadingA senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, says any president or governor who commits criminal act could as well face the law while in office, stating that the supreme court has ruled out absolute immunity, therefore governors involved in criminal charges, including the leadership of the national assembly must face the law. Falana made […]
Continue ReadingWhen the EFCC took off in 2004, it was able to prevent the corrupt criminal suspects from frustrating their prosecution. Unfortunately, the EFCC was taken over by powerful criminal suspects in connivance with a former Attorney-General of the Federation and an ex-Inspector-General of Police. While pretending to fight corruption under the rule of law, the […]
Continue ReadingHearing of Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky’s human rights violation suit against the Department of State Services, the attorney general of the Federation and the Nigerian Police, has been fixed for 14 June. Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court in Abuja made the order after the respondents in the case failed to appear in court. […]
Continue ReadingHuman rights lawyer, Femi Falana, has implored the Nigerian government to rethink its plan to secure a $3.5 billion (about N700 billion) loan from the World Bank and the African Development Bank. Mr. Falana in a letter to the Ministry of Finance, said instead of taking the loan, the government should direct the anti-graft agencies […]
Continue ReadingFollowing Femi Falana’s petition to the International Criminal Court, ICC, requesting investigation of those involved in arms deal, a former minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has described as malicious attempts by Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), to link her with the $2.1 billion arms scandal. Recall that Falana is asking for the prosecution of all those involved […]
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