Human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, SAN, would be joining the presidential candidates of the African Action Congress, and the Social Democratic Party, Omoyele Sowore and Adewole Adebayo respectively, and a host of others to storm the memorial to…
Gani Must Come Back – Uzor Maxim Uzoatu
It was President Buhari’s wife who asked the question: “Are there no longer men in Nigeria?” She was wailing about the shadowy characters that had, allegedly, hijacked her husband’s regime. We need one particular man to come back from death…
June 12, the mandate – Wole Soyinka
(As prepared for the formal recognition of June 12, 1993, and conferment of national honours on stalwarts of that struggle.) The annulment of the presidential elections of June 12, 1993 was a negative watershed in Nigerian history. It opened…
Move over OBJ, Buhari is the real Baba – Toni Kan
I was in church yesterday when the man sitting next to me passed me his phone. “Later,” I said. I had come in late and wanted to pay attention to the pastor. But he insisted. “Read joor, shebi you be…
Gani Fawehinmi was a titan, says Ambode
Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, on Sunday said that the late legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, was revered as a titan while he lived. An Alausa statement Sunday signed by Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Habid Aruna, said he…
Gani Fawehinmi’s new statue set for unveiling on his posthumous 80th birthday
The Lagos State Government will on Sunday, April 22, unveil the new statue of the late legal luminary and activist, Gani Fawehinmi, located at Ojota. A statement Saturday signed by Commissioner for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Steve Ayorinde, said the…