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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has declared her intentions to gun for the presidency of the World Bank. Okonjo-Iweala disclosed this in a media interview yesterday in Davos, Switzerland. She said: “I know that, because I contested the last time in 2012, and many people were asking that question. “It…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. President Buhari announced the suspension Friday at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the suspension followed the order of the CCT directing him to suspend Onnoghen, pending the completion of his…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)–Mrs. Aisha Buhari is gravely ill and being treated in a German hospital following an undisclosed ailment, two authoritative sources close to the first family told THEWILL Thursday, confirming our earlier story on her unusual disappearance from the scene. The sources, who asked not to be named in this report, said Mrs….