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Binance Executive's Bail Appeal Fails Again Amid Ongoing Legal Battle in Nigeria

Coinnounce 19 Apr 2024
Binance and its executives are currently facing two separate lawsuits in Nigeria ... His motion claims that his detention and the confiscation of his passport breach Nigeria's constitution, which protects individual liberty.
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Akuns: Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution Requires Total Overhaul By N’Assembly

This Day 18 Apr 2024
In that Republican constitution of 1963, the preamble stated thus, “Having firmly resolved to establish the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with a view to ensuring the unity of our people and faith in ...
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A Conference Discusses the Religious Liberty Crisis in Japan and Internationally

Bitter Winter English 15 Apr 2024
Stormy Skies Ahead.” The gloomy title, she explained, first refers to the fact that billions of human beings live in countries where religious liberty is severely restricted, such as “China, Nigeria, ...
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Binance Executive Sues Nigeria’s NSA and EFCC for Rights Violation

Bitcoin World 31 Mar 2024
The lawyers requested the court consider his detention and the seizure of his passport a “violation of his fundamental right to personal liberty” as guaranteed by Nigeria’s constitution.
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Remembering the Dark Days of Military Rule

This Day 31 Mar 2024
It took a dogged move by the International Press Institute (IPI) Nigeria, under the leadership of Mr Musikilu Mojeed, the editor-in-chief of Premium Times, to uncover the fact that Olatunji was seized by men of the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA).
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Binance executives detained in Nigeria allege wrongful detention

Jurist 30 Mar 2024
... in Nigeria ... Gambaryan claims that his detention and the confiscation of his passport violated his fundamental right to personal liberty under sections 35 (1) and (4) of the Constitution of Nigeria.
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Chuks Nwana: Our Value System Needs Fundamental Overhaul to Have Better Society

This Day 30 Mar 2024
... of water and sea power sparked his interest in admiralty and maritime law, the impact of the Russia -Ukraine war on Nigeria’s shipping market, the liberty of being a lawyer and his hobbies.
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CLO Urges FG to Obey Court Order on N1.1tn Compensation to Niger Community

This Day 26 Mar 2024
Nigeria . ... A leading human rights group, Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), has urged the federal government to obey a recent court ruling ordering it to pay N1.1 trillion compensation  to the ...
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CLO, Estate Landlords Clash Over Early Closure of Gate to Motorists, Pedestrians

This Day 23 Mar 2024
Nigeria . ... The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), a human rights group, and residents of Abel Orebiyi Street, off Salvation Road, Opebi, Ikeja, have disagreed over early closure of the entrance gate into the community against motorists at 8.00p.m.
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CLO Calls on Tinubu, Govs to Sit Up

This Day 18 Mar 2024
Nigeria .. The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO), Akwa Ibom State chapter, has called on President Bola Tinubu and governors in the country to be alive to their responsibilities in the face of ...
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Joyful return to Bergen for Yele Sowore after being detained for nearly 5 years in Nigeria

New Jersey Herald 10 Mar 2024
Journalist imprisoned in Nigeria returns home to Haworth ... Sowore, who lives with his family in Haworth, had been imprisoned in Nigeria ... He was eventually confined to an apartment in Nigeria’s capitol, Abuja.
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The Independence of the Judiciary in a Democratic Dispensation (Part 1)

This Day 05 Mar 2024
Nigeria . ... The paper shall conclude with a focus on the role of an independent Judiciary in Nigeria’s nascent democracy ... “The infusing of the spirit of liberty, democracy, justice, the Rule of Law and order amongst the people” .
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NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT TO COMPENSATE VICTIM OF RIGHTS VIOLATION

Foroyaa 03 Mar 2024
In the case with suit number ECW/CCJ/APP/21/21, filed before the Court on 24 May 2021, Mr Abiodun Ilesanmi, a Nigerian trader residing in Lagos, Nigeria, alleged that his rights to personal liberty, ...
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Freedom declined worldwide in 2023: report

La Prensa Latina 29 Feb 2024
The population of countries that experienced a widespread deterioration in their political rights and civil liberties was three times larger than that of areas where there were improvements.
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Parliamentary System, Key to Solving Nigeria’s Problem, Says Gani Adams

This Day 22 Feb 2024
Nigeria . ... Aare Kakanfo of Yorubaland, Chief Gani Adams, has said the Parliamentary System is the best option to solving Nigeria’s political problems ... the structural  imbalances of Nigeria.
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