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By Rasheed Sobowale Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, in an interview with VanguardLive TV, has claimed that the Federal Government was buying time towards increasing the fuel price. Falana, who was responding to a question regarding the purported fuel price hike across the nation, stated that the PPRA who released a statement regarding
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By Nwafor Sunday Following the statement credited to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency, PPPRA, over the weekend, where it mistakenly published a template announcing N212.6 per litre, as the new price of petrol, a human right activist, Mr Femi Falan, SAN, Monday, spoke against the modus operandi of the Nigerian government. In an interview
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Legal luminary and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Chief Femi Falana has berated the federal government over its inability to build a functional refinery to address the lingering crisis in regulating fuel prices in the country.
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Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr Femi Falana, on Thursday, expressed his readiness to testify in the ongoing trial of the former Chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team, PRTT, Mr Abdulrasheed Maina.
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A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana, Friday denied buying any property from the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. In a statement sent to Vanguard, Falana explained the incidents surrounding the said property. Yesterday, a witness, Mr. Ngozika Ihuoma, while narrating before the Federal High Court in Abuja, how, EFCC, under its former Acting
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…Strikes out CBN’s suit …It’s not over yet, CSOs warn FG …As CAN says freezing of the accounts uncalled for, Nigeria can’t nurture democracy by stifling freedom of expression By Ikechukwu Nnochiri & Luminous Jannamike The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja yesterday vacated an order it made on November 4, 2020, which directed banks
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By Nwafor Sunday Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), has said that a former presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in the 2019 Presidential election, and Sahara Reporters Publisher, Omoyele Sowore has asked him to sue the Nigerian Police for torturing and violating his fundamental human right. Sowore was arrested along with
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Human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, (SAN), on Wednesday, allayed fears expressed by some Nigerians that the clamour for restructuring was an indirect call for the break up of the country. Rather, he said, the issue of restructuring, if it succeeded, will only help in righting the wrongs in critical areas, instead of creating disunity
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…Says they’ve identified the barracks of soldiers who shot protesters in Lekki Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, has said the Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 And Beyond, ASCAB, has identified the barracks of the soldiers who opened fire on protesters at Lekki toll gate in Lagos. On Tuesday, soldiers opened fire on the protesters who blocked
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By Nwafor Sunday Mr Femi Falana, a human Rights Lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Monday said a group he oversees has identified the barracks where officers of the military who shot protesters at the Lekki Toll Gate, came from. Based on the investigation gathered so far, ASCAB has facts that shots were actually
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