LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Renowned human rights lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, former lawmakers, Senator Shehu Sanni and Nkoyo Toyo, have called on President Bola Tinubu to halt further implementation of anti-masses policies, as Nigerians were experiencing harrowing hardship. Tinubu on his inauguration had announced the immediate withdrawal of fuel subsidy and would later devalue the Naira,…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More prominent lawyers are lining up on the side of the argument championed by former President of the Nigerian Bar Association( NBA), Olisa Agbakoba (SAN) that a presidential candidate must obtain 25 percent in the Federal Capital Territory(FCT), as a requirement to be declared winner of an election at that category. The contentious issue which…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), has chastised the Federal Government over the treason charge leveled against Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi. WITHIN NIGERIA reported that the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, had warned Peter Obi against inciting Nigerians to violence over the outcome of the presidential election….
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Legal luminary, Olisa Agbakoba has said it is possible to conclude presidential election petitions in April, provided that the court systems are very proactive. He noted that the tension around the call for an interim government was due to expectations that the tribunal may not deliver judgement before May 29. Agbakoba said…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr. Olisa Agbakoba, (SAN), has expressed his waning confidence in the Nigerian courts. Agbakoba blamed his discouragement on the recent judgments coming out of the courts, which according to him are baffling and unexpected from justices at that level. The senior lawyer who spoke as…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A powerful group of prominent leaders in the south of Nigeria, under the aegis of The Southern Eminent Leaders of Thought, otherwise known as Project Nigeria Movement, has purportedly penciled down five names they consider fit to be flagbearers of the Igbo-speaking southern part of the country in the race to 2023…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Olisa Agbakoba SAN, has disowned a new political movement known as the ‘National Consultative Front’ which named him among 37 other political and thought leaders who came together to form the group. The group had issued a communique on Wednesday where it listed a 7-point resolution from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared that incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari cannot legally double as the Minister of Petroleum Resources. The court made the declaration Thursday while giving judgment in a suit filed last year by a former President of the Nigerian Bar Association, Dr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN). Agbakoba had,…