Gani Fawehinmi has fought many battles in his life. He has fought bestial military regimes and corrupt civilian regimes all in pursuance of good governance and better life for the people. He survived primitive treatments in the hands of these regimes but today he is confronted by the most dreaded of all challenges – lung […]

Mrs Ganiyat Fawehinmi, widow of Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN), spoke briefly yesterday to Sunday Vanguard, throwing light on his last moment. Excerpts: By AbdulahWahab ABbdulah ON his last moment: Gani’s death, though did not come as a shock to us, because of his ailment. However, it is painful to us, especially when the sickness came. […]

SOME critics have described Mr. Fawehinmi as a rebel, a revolutionary and others have even called him a publicity-seeking lawyer, but the most authentic and objective description of him and that with which many right-thinking people would agree is that Mr. Fawehinmi is a “fierce crusading lawyer. Born by a wealthy timber magnate at Ondo in the Western Province of Nigeria, Mr. Fawehinmi was reared in prosperous circumstance.

LUNG cancer, the leading cause of cancer death in adult men and women, occurs most commonly between the ages of 45 and 70, has become more prevalent in recent times no thanks to increase in smoking of cigarettes. Majority of lung cancers belong to the non–small cell lung carcinoma category.

In 1969, Gani handled a case against the secretary to the military government of Benue-Plateau, Andrew Obaya, who was alleged to have snatched a peasant’s wife, Mallam Bala Abashi, leading to his first brush with detention which landed him in Kaduna prisons for refusing to withdraw from the case.