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Renowned human rights activist Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the Attorney-General of the Federation to withdraw the case against the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen in view of the ruling by the Appeal that a judicial officer who has not been investigated by the National Judicial Council and sanctioned for misconduct cannot be arraigned in any criminal …

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana has asked Nigeria’s Senate President, Bukola Saraki to return the pension he received as former governor of Kwara state to the Kwara State government as well as return the house built for him as a former governor.  

Our attention has been drawn to a malicious and misleading report trending on the social media platforms that Ola Olukoyede, Chief of Staff, CoS, to Ibrahim Magu, the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC was a staff “seconded” to the Commission from the Chambers of Femi Falana, SAN.

The journalistic slogan is ‘Publish and be damned’, but how many practicing journalists have the courage to take up the challenge of the slogan? Where therefore one finds practicing members of the profession like the Editor of the Defendant and his team mates who have the courage to publish and comment on such grave issues of public concern and interest …

Human right lawyer Femi Falana, SAN, has called on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “set up a panel of inquiry to investigate the killing of the MASSOB/IPOB members as well as the scores of the Shiites who have been killed by the army and the police, in view of the admission of the Nigerian Army that it killed …

By Femi Falana During the campaign last year, the candidate of the All Progressive Congress, General Mohammadu Buhari pledged that if elected as President by the Nigerian people his administration would not remove fuel subsidy.

Mr. Femi Falana, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) has written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari urging him to investigate cases of human rights abuses in the country. He specifically made allusion to extra-judicial execution of criminal suspects by the police and the unlawful killing of unarmed civilians including women and children by the armed forces.