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Team Of 28 Lawyers On Standby To Represent #EndBadGovernance Protesters Arrested By Security Operatives, Says Inibehe Effiong

5 months ago1132 min

Ahead of the kick-off, Effiong in a post on his X account on Wednesday night, said, “We have a team of 28 lawyers in Lagos State cutting across different parts of the State. Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effiong, says a team of 28 lawyers in Lagos State is on standby to offer legal assistance to anyone arrested or prosecuted over #EndBadGovernance protest. The 10-day nationwide protest against hardship, worsening poverty, poor governance among others...

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BREAKING: UBA Bank Refuses To Accept Letter By Take-It-Back Movement Lawyers, Seeking To Unfreeze Account

5 months ago855 min

The United Bank for Africa (UBA) has refused to accept the letter written by pro-democracy group, Take-It-Back Movement seeking that its account should be unfrozen. SaharaReporters reported last Friday that UBA had frozen the account of the organisation over its call for #EndBadGovernance in Nigeria protests. According to TIB Movement, its account was frozen on the instructions of Nigeria’s secret police, Department of State Services, also known as State Security Service. Also on Friday, the...

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Nnamdi Kanu’s Lawyers ‘Denied Access To Detained IPOB Leader,’ Lament Seizure Of Documents By Nigerian Secret Police, DSS

9 months ago996 min

The legal team of the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu has lamented that they have been repeatedly denied access to their client. Kanu has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since the extraordinary rendition from Kenya to Nigeria in June 2021. The legal team led by Barrister Aloy Ejimakor raised the alarm in a press briefing, saying the DSS not only denied them access...

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Lawyers Accuse Gombe Governor, Inuwa Yahaya and APC Of Owing N40Million Legal Fee For Election Cases After 15 Months, Threaten Legal Action

9 months ago9215 min

The Gombe State Governor, Inuwa Yahaya and his party, the All Progressives Congress, have been accused of owing their attorneys who represented the party in court at the governor’s behest for the pre-election cases filed against him and the party by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). According to letters from Steel Attorneys obtained by SaharaReporters, the governor and the party have owed its lawyers N40 million for the election cases handled for him for...