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A non-governmental organisation, Gani Fawehinmi Memorial Organisation, has listed programmes to mark the posthumous birthday of the late human rights lawyer, Gani Fawehinmi, on April 22.
The Chairman of the organisation, Agunbiade Tunde, said the organisation, founded over 13 years ago, stands to honour Fawehinmi who stood for the rule of law, democracy, human rights and press freedom.
He spoke on Wednesday during a courtesy visit to the Punch Place, the headquarters of The Punch Nigeria Limited, at Magboro, Ogun State.
He said GAFAMORG’s tradition included marking Fawehinmi’s birthday and the day he passed on with humanitarian activities which included visiting orphanages and providing for the less privileged.
Tunde said this year’s programmes would see the organisation pay a visit to a Down Syndrome foundation after which a lecture would be held in honour of the late legal luminary.
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Editor’s Note
In our post on February 19, 2023, in a story ‘Woman burns self to death over failure to offset N70,000 loan’, we reported that a middle-aged woman, simply known as Mama Dada, set herself ablaze over her inability to pay back a loan of N70,000 she reportedly took from a microfinance bank, LAPO.
We have since discovered that the microfinance bank referred to in the story was not LAPO Microfinance Bank Limited.
We apologise to the LAPO Group for the error in the identification of the name of the said microfinance bank where the deceased took the loan. The mix-up in the name of the MFB is not deliberate.
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