Legal icons, rights advocates, and allies of the late Gani Fawehinmi, SAN, are demanding the immediate demolition of a four-storey hotel erected next to his Ikeja GRA residence in Lagos. Their call, made during a Friday protest and press conference shortly after Fawehinmi’s posthumous 87th birthday on 22 April, denounces the building as illegal and a grave risk to the …

A prominent lawyer and journalist, Mr. Richard Akinnola has debunked the allegation by former Deputy Director of the State Security Service, Brigadier-General Kunle Togun (rtd.) that renowned civil rights lawyer, Chief Gani Fawehinmi supported the military regime of General Muhammadu Buhari (31 December 1983 to 27 August 1985) because of the favours he got from the regime that was regarded …