Former Anambra State Governor and 2023 Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has expressed admiration for lawyer and activist Dele Farotimi. Obi disclosed this in a tweet on Friday, following his visit to Farotimi, who recently returned from a correctional facility in Ekiti. The politician noted that Farotimi remains in high spirits despite his ordeal and described him as a …

Human rights lawyer and activist, Mr. Dele Farotimi has said that he did not ask anyone to plead with Aare Afe Babalola, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, who took him to court for defamation. Farotimi is currently standing trial in Ekiti State following a petition by Babalola regarding his book, Nigeria and Its Criminal Justice System. The 2023 presidential candidate …

Afe Babalola’s law firm has asked the Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Committee (LPDC) to disbar Dele Farotimi, a human rights advocate, for alleged unethical conduct. The firm wrote a 90-page petition dated 6 December, 2024 and signed by Ola Faro, a partner in the firm. LPDC is a committee established by the Legal Practitioners Act and charged with upholding ethical standards …

The question of whether the law of defamation is a hindrance to freedom of speech and a curtailment to democratic process confronted the Burkinabe, a few years ago. Lohe Issa Konaté was Burkina Faso, that landlocked West African country’s own Dele Farotimi. He was a journalist with the newspaper, L’Ouragan (The Hurricane). Like a tempestuous hurricane, on 1 August, 2012, …