Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has called on the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) to renew its interest in ensuring that the public get justice. He made the call alongside other human rights activists and senior lawyers at a webinar organised by the Lagos state chapter of the NBA with the theme “COVID-19, Access to Justice and Human Rights [...]
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Chidi Odinkalu, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), says it is wrong for the federal government to direct business operators not to increase prices of goods and services despite an increase in value added tax (VAT). The 2020 finance act, which was signed into law in January, raised VAT from 5% to 7.5%, to increase the government’s non-oil [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), says he will appeal against the N250 million defamation judgement awarded against him. A Rivers state high court, on Monday, ordered Odinkalu to pay Peter Odili, ex-governor of the state, N250m as damages for defamation. Augustina Kingsley-Chuku, the presiding judge, also ordered the defendant not to publish a book titled: "Too Good [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, a former chairman National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), has challenged the jurisdiction of the Kaduna chief magistrate court hearing a suit filed against him by the government of Kaduna state. The state government had instituted the case of “injurious falsehood” against Odinkalu following some claims he made about killings in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna in February. The governor [...]
The Kaduna state government has filed a suit against Chidi Odinkalu, a former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC). In the suit dated March 18, 2019, the government accused the human rights lawyer of inciting disturbance and furnishing false information which is punishable under the state’s penal codes. In February, Odinkalu had accused Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna, of lying [...]
The civil society joint action committee, a coalition of civil society organisations in the country, has warned that 20 states may experience electoral violence in 2019. The CSOs said there has been a weekly occurrence of violence in the country most of which, are not reported. Addressing journalists in Abuja on Friday, Chidi Odinkalu, senior team manager for the Africa programme of [...]
Aso Rock, Nigeria’s seat of power, used ambulances to complement bullion vans when moving cash around during the administration of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. The practice was said to have reached its peak in the heat of Obasanjo's quest for a third term, according to a new book titled ‘Too Good to Die: Third Term and the Myth of the Indispensable Man [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, human rights lawyer, says President Muhammadu Buhari and security chiefs in the country “have become part of the problem” in Nigeria. Odinkalu also accused the president of clamping down on human rights and opposing views in the country. The lawyer was speaking during the launch of Civic Coalition for Democracy (CCD), a civil society group, at the Unity Fountain in [...]
Nigerians from all walks of life on Monday converged on the Unity Fountain, Abuja, to mourn victims of killings across the country. The mourners were clad in black shirts with the inscription #OneDeathTooMany. Civil society groups, human rights activists, and family members of some victims were in attendance. Chidi Odinkalu, convener of the programme, said the event was organised to acknowledge the departed. He [...]
Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, human rights lawyer, has called on Nigerians across the world to mourn those who have been killed in recent times. Odinkalu, a former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), said the government has neglected the dead. He called on Nigerians to participate in the #NationalDayOfMourning organised by the Civil Society Joint Nigeria Crisis Action Committee (JN-CAC) on [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, human rights lawyer, has dismissed the claim of Ibrahim Magu, acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), that the man who gave the anti-graft agency information about the monies stashed in an apartment at Ikoyi, Lagos, is now a millionaire. Magu said this on Thursday while speaking at a programme in Vienna, Austria. “We are currently working [...]
The Leadership of the Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), an umbrella body for all unity schools across the country, has demanded the prosecution of all those involved in the abuse of students of Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Langtang, Plateau state. TheCable had done an undercover investigation that exposed how security guards employed to protect students pimp the girls to [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, human rights activist, says Nigerians deserve a better treatment from President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking on Channels Television on Sunday night, Odinkalu said Buhari has spoken to Nigerians only once since assuming office. He said Nigerians have gotten used to a situation where the government always "confections statements" rather than addressing the citizens on the issues affecting them. "We did not elect [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, human rights activist; Sam Egwu, former Eboniyi state governor, and other eminent Nigerians have asked the government to deal firmly with those who promote hate and violence. They expressed hope in the country, declaring "we are all Nigerians". The charge is coming hours after Acting President Yemi Osinbajo met with northern leaders in Abuja, where he said the government would [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, human rights lawyer and president-general of Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA), wants Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos, to be closed until the diarrhoea outbreak in the school is over. Two students have died, one in critical condition, and 16 have been admitted into hospital in the outbreak. The Lagos state ministry of health had earlier confirmed that water sources in [...]
Chidi Odinkalu, a lawyer and human rights activists, says President Muhammadu Buhari has not done enough in terms of communicating with Nigerians. Speaking when he led protesters to the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday, Odinkalu said: "When he wants to talk about Nigeria, he gets on a plane and goes outside Nigeria and he starts gossiping about us." Odinkalu rated the [...]
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