{"id":161592,"date":"2025-05-07T22:52:51","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T21:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:56:03","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T22:56:03","slug":"amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release","title":{"rendered":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to demand the release of detained social critic VeryDarkMan.<\/p>\n<p>The revelation was made on Wednesday by VeryDarkMan\u2019s counsel, Deji Adeyanju, in a post on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n<p>He wrote: \u201cI have now confirmed that contrary to my previous post the other day that our revered leader and mentor, Femi Falana, SAN, has made several calls to EFCC challenging VDM\u2019s unlawful arrest and detention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It will be recalled that Adeyanju had, on Monday, criticised Falana for his perceived silence regarding VeryDarkMan\u2019s continued detention, which he described as unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>Falana\u2019s intervention comes despite an ongoing legal dispute between his family and VeryDarkMan.<\/p>\n<p>The Falana family had filed a N1 billion defamation suit against VeryDarkMan following the circulation of a leaked voice recording in which popular crossdresser Bobrisky allegedly claimed that musician Falz contacted him while in jail, offering to help secure a presidential pardon for N10 million through his father.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to demand the release of detained social critic VeryDarkMan. The revelation was made on Wednesday by VeryDarkMan\u2019s counsel, Deji Adeyanju, in a post on X (formerly Twitter). He wrote: \u201cI have now confirmed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":161591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1134,254,14485],"class_list":["post-161592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-femi-falana","tag-nigeria","tag-verydarkman"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crime ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crime ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-05-07T21:52:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-05-07T22:56:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"900\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"571\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-07T21:52:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-07T22:56:03+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\"},\"wordCount\":193,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Femi Falana\",\"Nigeria\",\"VeryDarkMan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\",\"name\":\"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release - Nigeria\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-05-07T21:52:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-05-07T22:56:03+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crime ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg\",\"width\":900,\"height\":571,\"caption\":\"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/\",\"name\":\"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release - Nigeria","description":"Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crime ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release","og_description":"Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crime ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release","og_site_name":"Nigeria","article_published_time":"2025-05-07T21:52:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-05-07T22:56:03+00:00","og_image":[{"width":900,"height":571,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release","datePublished":"2025-05-07T21:52:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-07T22:56:03+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release"},"wordCount":193,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg","keywords":["Femi Falana","Nigeria","VeryDarkMan"],"articleSection":["all news","Policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release","name":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release - Nigeria","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg","datePublished":"2025-05-07T21:52:51+00:00","dateModified":"2025-05-07T22:56:03+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Renowned Nigerian human rights lawyer and activist Femi Falana has reportedly contacted the Economic and Financial Crime ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/05\/sm_1746645996.275531.jpg","width":900,"height":571,"caption":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/amid-legal-battle-falana-contacts-efcc-for-verydarkmans-release#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Amid legal battle, Falana contacts EFCC for VeryDarkMan\u2019s release"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/","name":"Africa Press | Nigeria | Homepage","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/author\/cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}