A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Femi Falana, has criticised a proposed bill seeking to make voting compulsory in Nigeria, describing it as a violation of citizens’ constitutional rights. The bill, sponsored by Speaker of the House of Representatives, Tajudeen Abbas, proposes a six-month jail term or a fine of N100,000 for eligible voters who fail to participate in elections. …

A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Tuesday struck out the preliminary objection in the defamation suit filed by human rights lawyer Femi Falana, (SAN), and his son, popular musician Folarin Falana, also known as Falz, against social media personality Vincent Otse, popularly called VeryDarkMan (VDM). Justice Mathias Dawoodu struck out the suit following his discovery that the substantive …

Human rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, has filed a $5 million suit before a Lagos High Court against the United States of America-based organisation, Meta Platforms Inc., over alleged invasion of his privacy. Falana, through his lawyer, Olumide Babalola, accused Meta of publishing motion images and voice captioned, ‘AfriCare Health Center’, on their website to the effect that he suffered …

A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja on Thursday adjourned the N1 billion defamation suit filed by human rights lawyer Femi Falana (SAN) and his son Folarin, popularly known as Falz, against Martins Otse alias VeryDarkBlackMan, to 19 February 2025. The court fixed the date to hear a preliminary objection filed by VeryDarkBlackMan, through his lawyer, Marvin Omorogbe, challenging the …

Rights activist and lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana has written to Senate President Godswill Akpabio and Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas in opposition to the view canvassed by former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Dr. Olisa Agbakoba on the legal status of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). In a letter dated 17 …

A Lagos High Court has ordered social media critic, Martin Otse (popularly known as VeryDarkMan) to remove defamatory comments and videos about lawyer and rights activist, Mr. Femi Falana, and his son, Folarin Falana (popularly known as Falz). Additionally, the court imposed a N500 million fine for libel. Justice M. O. Idowu delivered the judgement on Tuesday in a case …

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has denied having anything to do with popular crossdresser, Idris Okuneye known as Bobrisky and his alleged bribing of prison officials to serve his prison sentence outside the correctional facility. In a viral video by a blogger, Martins Otse known as VeryDarkMan, some unnamed EFCC officers collected the sum of ₦15 million from Bobrisky …

Human rights lawyer Femi Falana says the “importation scam” around petrol must be investigated. “It is high time the importation scam was investigated”, he said on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme. “I am not talking of the joke that is going on in the National Assembly. The media must help, civil society organisations must help to expose the fraud”. There …

Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, on Sunday, urged the Federal Government to put an end to the reprisal attacks by the Nigerian Army on the Okuama community of Ughelli South Local Government Area, Delta State. Some irate youths of the community were said to have ambushed soldiers who were drafted to the community to stop a communal clash in …

There is a viral video where human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana made allusion to N135 billion given to the 36 states in December 2023. He spoke at a memorial event in honour of Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti. It is important to state here that Falana has a strong reputation for exaggerations and embellishments. What the Lagos lawyer rendered in that …