LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, will be unable to attend his concert in Majorca Island, Spain, today (Saturday) as the Nigeria Police Force continue to detain him, all in a bid to find incriminating evidence on him. SaharaReporters had on Friday reported that the Lagos State Chief Magistrate in Yaba, Mrs Adeola Olatunbosun,…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Sabo-Yaba, yesterday, ordered that afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, should spend four more days in police custody, over alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatubosun made the order sequel to a motion ex-parte brought by the police,…
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,…
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…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s late Afro Beat king, Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s son Seun Kuti has obviously offended the gods and has bitten more than he can chew as the authorities of the Police Service Commission (PSC) on Sunday ordered for his immediate prosecution for slapping an on duty police man. The Inspector of General Police…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the pressure to “decolonise” has grown throughout Britain’s educational and arts institutions, from showy renaming of buildings, whose benefactors have the slightest link with slavery, to trigger warnings about racial “slurs” in great works of literature, the move to send swathes of objects in British collections back to where they came from…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Popular Nigerian rapper, Folarin Falana, better known as Falz, has undergone knee surgery in the United Kingdom. The songwriter took to his Instagram page to narrate how he sustained an injury on his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). Falz said he was playing football in November 2022 when he sustained the knee injury….
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s outgoing president has issued a declaration over the Benin Bronzes that could have significant consequences in the campaign for the return of these great cultural treasures, as Barnaby Phillips has been finding out. In the dying weeks of his administration, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari made a decision which has caused a…