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Activist Femi Aborisade Reviews Arije’s Autobiography Read here  http://radiatingthetruth.com.ng/2018/12/14/activist-femi-aborisade-reviews-arijes-autobiography/

Footprints Of A Selfless Servant: The Autobiography Of Comrade Oyekan Arije – Review http://radiatingthetruth.com.ng/2018/12/14/footprints-of-a-selfless-servant-the-autobiography-of-comrade-oyekan-arije-review/ Activist Femi Aborisade Reviews Arije’s Autobiography http://radiatingthetruth.com.ng/2018/12/14/activist-femi-aborisade-reviews-arijes-autobiography/

On Monday, 29th October 2018 certain segments of the security forces massacred at least 39 people at the army road block on the road from Nyanya to Abuja.  A peaceful, unarmed demonstration of Shi’ite supporters of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) were gunned down in the road from the popular residential areas of Nyanya, Maraba and Karu to the centre of Abuja.

The Executive Order No. 6 on Preservation of Suspicious Assets Connected With Corruption and Other Relevant Offences, is, in my humble opinion, unconstitutional to the extent that it seeks to constrain the authority and independence of the judiciary in dealing with cases before the court as the court deems fit under existing laws and principles. To this extent, the Executive Order No. 6 carries the virus and wears the garb of an ouster of court's jurisdiction.

WebLink: http://worldstreetjournal.org.ng/2018/08/27/aborisade-chides-nba-for-keeping-mute-when-buhari-was-assaulting-rule-of-law/ Posted by:  Editor in  Breaking news ,  Business ,  News ,  Nigeria August 27, 2018 0   39 Views A human rights activist and legal practitioner, Femi Aborisade has lampooned the Nigeria Bar Association for keeping quiet when President Mohammadu Buhari was usurping the function of the judiciary by redefining rule of law to justify his continued disobedience of court orders and deprive Nigerians of their inalienable right to freedom under the guise of national security.

Link: https://independent.ng/rule-of-law-overrides-national-security-lawyers-reply-buhari/amp/

19 th  August 2018 Press Statement DEMOLITION OF YINKA AYEFELE’S N800M MUSIC HOUSE IS TYRANNICAL, UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND UNLAWFUL The demolition by the Oyo State Government of the Music House, opposite ConOil, Lagos Bypass, Challenge, Ibadan, which is owned by Mr. Yinka Ayefele in the morning hours of today, 19 th day of August 2018 is  not only tyrannical, it is also unconstitutional and unlawful from the point of view of the Suit instituted by Yinka Ayefele challenging the threatened demolition .

The detention of Mr. Samuel Ogundipe, a Premium Times Security Sector Reporter at the cell of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Abuja, on 14 August 2018, allegedly for reporting the tentative Report of investigations and findings by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) on the siege on the National Assembly by the State Security

By femi aborisade aborisadefemi@gmail.com Introduction I thank the organizers of the monthly political education for their consistency in organizing regular political education programme and for inviting me to participate.

In Support of Workers’ Strike in Oyo State Tertiary Institutions to Save Right to Education https://socialistworkersleague.org/2018/07/23/3218/ I

All members of Academic and non Academic staff unions in all tertiary institutions owned solely by the Oyo State Government (with the exception of The Polytechnic Ibadan) have been compelled to embark on another round of strikes, beginning between 2 May and 27  June 2018 for being owed between 26 and 8 months of unpaid salaries.

The Telescope Nigeria - http://thetelescopenigeria.com/?p=22300 CITY LAWYER , Femi Aborisade has condemned the actions of the police at Ekiti where the police sprayed tear gas on people going for political rally. He decried the act and reminded the police that police permit is not require for assemblage.

Read more http://diplomaticwatch.com/election-nigerian-lawyers-decry-police-assault-on-ekiti-governor/

It is not impossible that the statement being attributed to the Fulani NATIONALITY Movement was made by faceless people who want to throw this country into avoidable disastrous ethnic cum religious war, the end of which no one can predict.

TOAN versus NURTW, RTEAN: Aborisade urges Lagos to enforce verdict Read more at : http://www.boldnews.com.ng/archives/439

Lagos tricycle owners jubilate as court grants autonomy to operate Read more at: https://dailytimes.ng/lagos-tricycle-owners-jubilate-court-grants-autonomy-operate/ Source :https://dailytimes.ng/lagos-tricycle-owners-jubilate-court-grants-autonomy-operate/

Perhaps the immediate reason why the Governors, through the National Economic Council (NEC) declared their intention to take over the payment of fuel subsidy from the NNPC was informed by the outrageous claims of the NNPC of increases in fuel consumption and fuel subsidy, from 28million litres per day and N726m per day (N261.4bn per annum) in subsidy as at December 2017 to 50 million litres per day, daily subsidy of N774m and N1.4trillion per annum in fuel subsidy as at 6 April 2018.

Source https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/04/aborisade-national-assembly-should-go-beyond-summon/ Comrade Femi Aborisade, a lawyer and activist is a former National Secretary of the National Conscience Party (NCP) The decision of the National Assembly to summon President Muhammadu Buhari over the increasingly unprecedented state of insecurity in the country is highly commendable even though it falls below expectation.

The decision of the House of Representatives to summon PMB over the increasingly   unprecedented state of insecurity in the country is highly commendable, even though it falls below expectation. When the failure of the Federal Government in guaranteeing security of life is considered along equally unprecedented economic agony to which ordinary people have been subjected, the APC/PMB led Federal Government has totally failed and it is no longer fit to continue to Rule, particularly at the backdrop of the two constitutional measures for assessing the performance of a government in power,   which are security and welfare of the people, stipulated to be the primary purpose of government, in section 14(2)(b) of the country's Written Constitution.

The President, by virtue of Section 58(4) of the Constitution has the power to withhold assent to bills presented to him. However, by a community reading of sections 58(4) & (5), if the bill is again passed by each House of the National Assembly by two thirds majority after the President withholds assent, the the bill shall become law and the Presidential assent shall be dispensed with. In other words, the President's withholding of assent may be ineffectual, on the long run, if the National Assembly is determined to pass the bill into law by following the constitutionally prescribed procedure.

Aborisade, Danfulani’s CEDRA condemn harassment of Shiites, call for El Zakyzakky, wife’s release Source : http://thetelescopenigeria.com/?p=21905

https://www.newdiplomatng.com/2018/04/23/breaking-yinusa-tanko-officially-declares-for-2019-presidency/ Source Dr. Yinusa Tanko has officially declared his aspiration to contest in next year’s presidential election under the mandate of the National Conscience Party (NCP), a party formed by the late legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi.

I unequivocally condemn the vicious repression of members of the Shittes by security agents on 16th April 2018, which reportedly led to alleged killings of some of the peaceful protesters and fatal injuries sustained by numerous other protesters.

The APC Federal Government should bury its head in shame for suppressing the NBA Ikeja branch from exercising a constitutionally donated or guaranteed right of movement and peaceful protest against imposition of harsh land use charge. The Police should know that the right of peaceful protest cannot be subjected to the whims and caprices of the police. The NPF and the APC Federal Government stand condemned for depriving the NBA Ikeja branch the fundamental right to peaceful protest. The APC is a party that came to power on the wave of mass protests against the ruinous economic policies of the PDP regime. We reject and condemn the undemocratic attacks on the right to peaceful protest! Vacate NBA Ikeja Branch office now! I call on mass organisations to stage peaceful solidarity protests at the NBA Ikeja Bar office. Let the protests they seek to ban begin now!!  Femi Aborisade web link : http://thetelescopenigeria.com/?p=21748

Link The new telegraph newspaper: https://newtelegraphonline.com/2018/03/sequence-of-electionsll-serve-elite-interest-aborisade/

Link - http://authorityngr.com/2018/03/25/killings-nigerian-leaders-celebrate-danjuma-for-exposing-the-military/

The call by retired General TYD that Nigerians should resort to self defence and not hope that the Nigerian armed forces can secure their lives is an indication of extreme frustration and absolute loss of confidence in the capacity of the PMB-led APC Federal Government to guarantee physical security of lives in Nigeria.

The President, by virtue of Section 58(4) of the Constitution has the power to w ithhold assent to bills pres ented to him. However, by a co mmunity reading of sections 58(4) & (5), if the bill is again passed by each House of the National As sembly by two thirds majority after the President withholds assent, the the bill shal l become law and the Presidential assent shall be dispensed with. In other words, the President's withholding of assent may be ineffectual, on the long run, if the National Assem bly is determined to pass th e bill into law by following the constitutionally prescribed procedure. However, it must be observed that t

The President, by virtue of Section 58(4) of the Constitution has the power to withhold assent to bills presented to him. However, by a community reading of sections 58(4) & (5), if the bill is again passed by each House of the National Assembly by two thirds majority after the President withholds assent, the the bill shall become law and the Presidential assent shall be dispensed with. In other words, the President's withholding of assent may be ineffectual, on the long run, if the National Assembly is determined to pass the bill into law by following the constitutionally prescribed procedure. 

The Link Source https://independent.ng/will-buhari-win-anti-graft-war-in-oil-industry/amp/

The Link https://independent.ng/nnpcs-non-disclosure-of-subsidy-funds-threatens-buharis-corruption-war/amp/ Source

  In a 1st March 2018 letter to Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, the NNPC, in perhaps an unprecedented brazen manner, bluntly refused to release certain critical information sought by Mr. Femi Falana, SAN from the Corporation. The simple but highly insensitive reason, which smacks of a high level of impunity is that the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) excludes the NNPC from being compellable to release information sought by members of the putblic.

PRESS STATEMENT  RELEASE TONY EZIMAKOR OR CHARGE HIM TO COURT By Femi Aborisade, Esq. The detention of  Mr. Tony Ezimakor , the Abuja Bureau Chief of  Daily Independent  newspaper since Wednesday, 28 th  February 2018, allegedly by the  State Security Service (SSS)  without being charged to court is not only a sad reminder of brutal suppression of press freedom under Decree No 4 of 1984, it is   an unacceptable violation of Sections 35(1) & (5) and 39(1), which provide constitutional guarantees for  personal liberty, being brought before a court within a reasonable time defined as one day where there is a court of competent jurisdiction within a radius of forty kilometers and freedom of expression and the press, including protection against disclosure of source of information.

  Lagos – Wild criticisms have continued to trail the reinstatement of the Executive Secretary, National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), Professor Usman Yusuf, by the presidency without recourse to the report of the panel investigating him over alleged abuse of office and graft. Human rights lawyer, Femi Aborishade told INDEPENDENT that the reinstatement of Mr. Yusuf by a Presidential order without trial to prove his guilt or to provide him an opportunity to prove his innocence shows that the so called fight against corruption is discriminatory and it is a huge joke. He added that a sincere fight against corruption should know no sacred cows.

Femi Aborishade , a lawyer and human rights activist, is a chieftain of the National Conscience  Party (NCP). He spoke to  MOHAMMED SHOSANYA  on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s letter to President Muhammadu Buhari and some other crucial national issues. Excerpts: What is your take on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s recent letter to President Muhammadu Buhari asking him not to return to Aso Rock in 2019? Former President Obasanjo was just speaking the position of the Nigerian masses. Obasanjo’s position appears to be important because it was made by a former

I'm posting here an interview by one character called Prof Labdo with a view to generating discourse and clarifying our position on ethnic nationalism/jingoism.  http://punchng.com/why-we-are-destined-to-lead-nigeria-for-long-prof-labdo/amp/ On another platform, i had reacted as follows to the Prof Labdo interview.  By publishing the interview with

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