LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Electricity Power Reform Act (Amendment) Bill 2018 passed by the House of Representatives last Tuesday prohibiting and criminalising estimated billing has proposed a one-year jail term and a fine of N1m for defaulters. The proposed law, which will be transmitted to the Senate for concurrence, and onward transmission to the President […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anxiety has continue to mount over the whereabouts of the suspended CJN, JusticeWalter Onnoghen as stern looking armed security operatives from both the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Service, DSS, were alleged to have cordoned off his premises situated within the Three Arm Zone of the Federal Capital Territory. The […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justices of the Supreme Court on Saturday shunned the inauguration of members of the election petitions tribunal by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed. The event was held at the Supreme Court Complex, Abuja on Saturday.It was observed that unlike the custom where justices of the Supreme Court […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro rejected an international ultimatum to call elections within eight days and said opposition leader Juan Guaido violated the constitution by declaring himself interim leader. Israel on Sunday joined a growing list of countries led by the United States that back Guaido’s claim to the presidency on the basis […]
By Young Erhiurhoro LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Since 1945, in the history of classical democracies, the world government under the United Nations and the African Union usually set development goals in different areas of human existence and government for member countries. From 1999 to 2014, it was Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and now, from 2015 to […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The third force movement under the aegis of the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM), have given President Muhammadu Buhari seven days to reinstate the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen or face unprecedented mass action. NIM being jointly led by a frontline civil right activist and legal icon, Dr Olisa Agbakoba SAN […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday disclosed that millions of dollars have been traced to the accounts of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. In a speech at the swearing in of the acting CJN, Tanko Mohammed, Buhari dwelt extensively on the corruption case against Onnoghen and how lawyers and […]
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By Inibehe Effiong LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari is unequivocally unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and grossly indefensible. What General Buhari has done, putting it mildly, is a brazen coup against democracy. The following 20 (twenty) points are worth noting: 1. […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of an acting Managing Director for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). He is Professor Nelson Braimbraifa. The President, following a Federal Executive Council (FEC) resolution, has equally vested the supervisory role of the commission in the Honourable Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, as well […]
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LAGOS JANUARY 25T (NEWSRANGERS)-Massive protest rocked the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) on Friday. Protesters took to the streets with placards, dancing and singing solidarity songs. They are protesting the transfer of power to the Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Mr. Mene Derek by Nsima Udo Ekere, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Governorship candidate for […]
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