Human rights lawyer Femi Falana has alleged a threat to his life and daughter amidst the ongoing N10 million ‘presidential pardon’ allegation involving him, his son, Falz and embattled crossdresser Idris ‘Bobrisky’ Okuneye. In September, PREMIUM TIMES reported that social media influencer Martin ‘VeryDarkMan’ Otse posted a leaked phone call recording which indicted Mr Falana … Read more
A prominent Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, responded on Thursday to critics of the Supreme Court judgement ordering direct payment of Nigeria’s 774 local governments’ shares of federal allocations directly to them. The judgement, delivered in July, upturned the longstanding arrangement of paying the local government areas’ federal allocations into joint accounts controlled … Read more
Keziah Ogbonnaya, a judge of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court, on Monday, declined a request to recuse herself from a libel suit filed by Geoffrey Onyeama, a former Nigerian foreign affairs minister. Mr Onyeama had sued a career ambassador in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Lillian Onoh, who is also a sister to … Read more
