Afe Babalola

  LEGAL icon and elder statesman, Afe Babalola, says he is ready to withdraw his criminal defamation suit against rights activist, Dele Farotimi. Babalola had sued Farotimi in an Ado Ekiti Magistrates’ Court following Farotimi’s publication of a book which allegedly defamed him. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Babalola’s decision to withdraw … Read more

  NIGERIAN lawyer Afe Babalola (SAN) used the police to arrest and detain his former employee, Bridget Omon Emengo, in 2021. Emengo was arrested and detained simply because she instituted an action against him for wrongful termination of her employment, violations of several of her fundamental human rights and those of her son, as well … Read more