Rights activist Mr Femi Falana has lambasted the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for flouting the interim injunction of the Supreme Court suspending the implementation of the 10 February deadline on the use of the old banknotes. Last Wednesday, the Supreme Court restrained the Federal Government, the CBN and commercial banks from implementing the currency swap policy, which made N1,000, …

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana has said that President Muhammadu Buhari was wrong in sending the list of nominated Resident Electoral Commissioners (RECs) of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to the Senate without consulting the Council of States, as required by the Constitution. He has therefore asked that the list be withdrawn from the Senate. Since 26 July …

Rights advocate, Mr Femi Falana SAN has demanded the immediate release of journalist, Agba Jalingo, who was arrested by the police in Lagos on Friday. As confirmed by Lagos Police spokesman, Suprentendent of Police Benjamin Hundeyin, Jalingo was picked up by the police from Abuja. In a statement on Saturday, Falana described how the journalist was arrested. He said: “Yesterday, …

Human rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana SAN has said that correctional centre officials at the Uyo correctional centre who allegedly tortured Inibehe Effiong may go to jail for 25 years if found guilty. Effiong, himself a human rights lawyer, was sentenced to one month imprisonment by the Akwa Ibom State Chief Judge, Justice Ekaette Obot on 27 July for alleged …