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A Coalition of 30 Civil Society Organisations across the country has called on the Nigeria Police Force to immediately release detained human rights defender, Comrade Chinonso Uba popularly called Nonso Nkwa or charge him to court. The coalition decried the detention of Nkwa for more than four days without access to his family and lawyer, a development they said is against the constitutional provisions of Nigeria, the Police Act, and the Administration of Criminal Justice Act.
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Three groups have applied to the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to be joined in a $1bn suit by Adamu Garba against the Chief Executive Officer and founder of Twitter International Company, Jack Dorsey.
Garba had filed the suit against the founder of the micro blogging site for his alleged sponsorship of the #EndSARS protests seeking end to police brutality in the country.
The applicants seeking to be joined in the suit are Association of West Africa Media Lawyers, Centre for Peace and Conflict Management in Africa and Rethink Africa Foundation.
They stated in the application filed through their lawyer, Noah Ajare, that they sought to be joined as amici curiae (friends of the court).
Three groups have indicated their interest to be joined in the one billion dollars’ suit filed by a Nigerian, Adamu Garba, against the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder of Twitter International Company, Jack Dorsey.
Garba filed the suit against Dorsey over his alleged sponsorship of the recent #EndSARS protests in parts of the country.
The groups; Association of West Africa Media Lawyers, Centre for Peace and Conflict Management in Africa and Rethink Africa Foundation, in a motion on notice with suit number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1391/2020 filed by their counsel, Noah Ajare, before Justice Folashade Giwa-Ogunbajo of the Federal High Court, Abuja, averred that the application was in public interest.