Archive for: May, 2023

“Presidential Election Tribunal: Rebel Lamidi Apapa Thoroughly Disgraced Out Of Court”

  LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party has claimed that the Bashiru Lamidi Apapa faction of the party, which stormed the Presidential Election Petition Court on Wednesday morning, was disgraced out of the premises. DAILY POST had reported that Apapa and the faction of the suspended National Chairman of the party, Mr Julius Abure clashed […]

New Suit Lodged To Block Inauguration Of Tinubu Surfaces

LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil society organization, Advocacy for Societal Rights Advancement and Development Initiative (ASRADI), has lodged a lawsuit with a Federal High Court in Abuja, seeking to prevent the planned inauguration of Bola Tinubu as the President of Nigeria. POLITICS NIGERIA reports that the suit, labelled FHC/ABJ/CS/669/2023, accuses Tinubu of perjury due to […]

Court Rejects Police Demand To Detain Seun Kuti For 21 Days, Grant Him Bail

LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Magistrate Court in Yaba, Lagos has granted bail to Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti.   The court also ordered the Nigerian police to finish their investigation into the alleged assault of a policeman in 48 hours and allow Kuti to go home.   “The court grants police 48 hours to complete ‘their investigations’ […]

DEATH PENALTY 2022: Recorded Executions Drop In Sub-Saharan Africa

 LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Recorded executions in 2022 reached the highest figure in five years, as the Middle East and North Africa’s most notorious executioners carried out killing sprees, Amnesty International said today as it released its annual review of the death penalty.  However, there was good news in Sub-Saharan Africa as recorded executions dropped by […]

Four Killed, Bodies Set Ablaze, Three Abducted As Gunmen  Attack US Convoy In Anambra

  LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than    four people were killed Tuesday after a U.S. convoy was attacked in Nigeria. The attackers “murdered two police operatives and two staff of the U.S. consulate and set their bodies and their vehicles ablaze,” Anambra Police Command told CNN. Police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu told AFP that the gunmen […]

Three Men To Die By Hanging For Stealing  Powerbank, Charger, Sandals In Ekiti

LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery. The defendants, Omotayo Deji (23), Chidiebere Ifeanyin (25) and Bolaji Usman (28), were arraigned before Justice Bamidele Omotoso on January 21, 2020, on four-count charge bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery. […]

Tragedy: Family Of Four Wiped Out, Others Injured As Windstorm Wreck Havoc In Ogun

  LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Denro in the Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State woke up, on Monday morning, to wailing and mourning as a midnight windstorm, accompanied by heavy rains, wiped out a family of four in the area. According to eyewitnesses, during the heavy rains that was preceeded by a windstorm, […]

Rainfall Wreck Havoc In Lagos, Displaces 436 Families, Destroys 228 Houses

LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The heavy rainfall witnessed in most parts of the country in the last 15 days has left about 436 families displaced in Lagos State. Similarly, about 228 houses were either partially or completely destroyed within the same period in the state. A total of 13 electricity poles were also affected in the […]

Police Allegedly Refuse Seun Kuti Bail, Drive Wife Away For Bringing Him Food

LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police at the Lagos State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Panti has refused to grant Seun Kuti bail after their futile attempt to trick him into writing a statement that would implicate him in the case of an alleged assault on a police officer.  SaharaReporters learnt that his lawyer, Adeyinka Olunide-Fusika, […]

Lawyer Knocks Lagos PPRO Hundeyin For Sharing  Handdcuffed Seun Kuti Pics Without Investigation

LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the lawyers of Afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti,  Adeyinka Olumide-Fusika, SAN, has slammed the Nigeria Police force for not Interrogating his client before they decided to handcuff him and also display his pictures on the internet It would be recalled that the Mugshots of the musician surfaced online on Monday and […]

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