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Critique of the Judgment in Sarah John & Anor v. SERAP & Anor (Suit No. CV/4547/2024, FCT High Court, Abuja, 5 May 2026) – Focus on Appeal Risks
This libel suit arose from SERAP’s 9 September 2024 publications (X/Twitter post and website statement) describing an unannounced visit by DSS officers (including a “tall, large, dark-skinned woman” and “slim, dark-skinned man”) to SERAP’s Abuja office as an “unlawful invasion/occupation,” involving interrogation/harassment, and linking it to broader government intimidation of civil society. The trial court …
Is There a Frustrated Lawyer at the DSS? By Lawson Akhigbe
DG DSS Adeola Oluwatosin Ajayi The Department of State Services (DSS), formerly known as the State Security Service (SSS), appears to have discovered a new national security weapon. Not surveillance. Not intelligence gathering. Not detention. Litigation. One begins to wonder whether somewhere within the agency’s legal department sits a frustrated Senior Advocate of Nigeria trapped …
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Waving at the Abyss: When the Police Meet Katsina’s “Friendly Neighborhood” Armored Division by Lawson Akhigbe
Nigeria is a country where reality regularly out-fictions Hollywood. But a recent viral video from Katsina State might have just clinched the Oscar for Best Surreal Suspense Thriller. In the footage, a heavily armed, highly mobile troop of men cruises down the road. They aren't exactly rocking bows, arrows, and Dane guns. No, this crew …
The Subsidy Trap: Nigeria’s Fuel Subsidy Was Already Dead Before Tinubu Signed the Death Certificate By Lawson Akhigbe
On the 29th of May 2023, freshly sworn-in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu stood before the nation at Eagle Square, Abuja, and delivered what will surely be studied in future generations as the most consequential two-word sentence in Nigerian economic history: “Subsidy is gone.” He said it with the quiet confidence of a man who had …
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