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Ganiyu Oyesola Fawehinmi, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria and former presidential aspirant, who will be remembered by many for his vehement opposition to Nigeria’s oppressive military regimes, is dead. He died at 71. The human rights activist and lawyer passed away in the early hours of September 5, 2009 after a two-year battle with lung [...]
The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee, the body charged with the responsibility of appointing Senior Advocates of Nigeria, on Thursday, announced the names of 25 lawyers as new SANs.
The body, which met in Abuja under the leadership of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi, said t hat out of the 126 legal practitioners and [...]