LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of the N13 billion recovered in a flat in Ikoyi, Lagos. The money- $43,449,947; £27,800; and N23,218,000 – was stashed away in iron cabinets and ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags in the apartment at Flat 7B, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi. The Economic…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyer and activist, Mr. Festus Keyamo, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to order an investigation of the Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Lawal K. Idris, and relieve him of his position over the detention of two online journalists and brothers, Messrs Daniel and Tim Elombah. Mr. Keyamo made the call in an…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Leicester Crown Court in the United Kingdom on Wednesday sentenced a Nigerian businessman to three years and six months imprisonment. The convict, Walter Wagbatsoma, 47, was imprisonment for money laundering. This was even as he was disqualified from being a company director for six years. The Lincolnshire police said Wagbatsoma fraudulently…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family of Toheeb Olayiwola, who was allegedly killed by an official of the Nigeria Customs Service at Abule-Egba, Lagos state has raised the alarm that officials of Lagos State Task Force are demanding for the payment of the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty thousand Naira before the corpse of Olayiwola will…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Fulani man has been apprehended in Ogun State after stabbing his tribesman to death during an argument today. .According to an eyewitness report, the suspected killer, Abubakar, stabbed the deceased 3 times in the stomach and back in Ilishan Remo. Abubakar, still stained with the blood of the deceased, was however…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Where is $500 million recovered from the late Gen. Sani Abacha’s family? This is the question the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is battling to answer. The cash was recovered from the family of the late Head of State during ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. It was repatriated from slush accounts in…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Super Eagles captain Nwankwo Kanu has alerted to plans to take over his Hardley Suites on Victoria Island, Lagos. He said although the matter is in court, an agency is about to “forcibly seize” the property.A statement yesterday by Kanu, the initiator of the Kanu Heart Foundation, lamented that the property,…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Thursday dismissed the application by the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB to reverse the court’s order proscribing it and designating it as a terrorist group. The Acting Chief Justice, Abdu Kafarati, while delivering his ruling on the application, resolved all the three formulated…