The Special Investigator of the Nigerian Bar Association on the invasion of the Abuja home of Justice Mary Odili of the Supreme Court has submitted his report. Nearly five months after the incident, which happened on October 29, 2021, the Special Investigator of the NBA, Monday Ubani, declared that the invasion was for the purpose of financial…
Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Monday Ubani, has joined in condemning comments by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, on the leaked Lagos State EndSARS Panel Report. Monday Ubani, who is a former Second Vice President of the Nigeria Bar Association, said the Minister rushed to address the media on the matter just to save his…
The one-month extension of the deadline for the integration of mobile phone SIM with the National Identification Number begins today. This followed the expiration of the initial deadline announcement by the Federal Government, before the extension approved last week. However; Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Monday Ubani, has threatened to return to court to seek enforcement of the…
Lagos-based lawyer, Monday Ubani, has secured a court order for the extension of the deadline to link mobile phones with National Identity Number by two months. Justice Maureen Onyetenu of the Federal High Court in Lagos issued the order in a ruling on a case of fundamental rights enforcement, filed by Ubani. Joined in Ubani’s suit as…
• Ubani doubts Independence of Panel The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has called for an international commission of inquiry on the shooting of EndSARS protesters in Lekki, Lagos State. SERAP made the request in a message to the United Nations and the African Union, eight days after the incident at the Lekki Phase-One Toll Gate…
Broadcasting organisations in Nigeria have been challenged to take on the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission, NBC, over the imposition of five million naira fine for hate speech. Lagos-based lawyer, MONDAY UBANI, said the hate speech provision in the new NBC Code does not serve the general good of citizens. UBANI, who spoke on telephone with our correspondent, said…