LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The forgery trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja was stalled on Monday as the ex-minister was absent from court. He is standing trial over the alleged use of false documents, fabricated evidence and procuring execution of documents before an Ikeja…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential candidates of all political parties have signed a peace accord committing themselves to a peaceful campaign for the 2023 election. All the candidates and the national chairman chairmen of their parties signed the accord organised by the National Peace Committee in Abuja on Thursday. Some of the candidates that signed the…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The post-Convention crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took another twist on Wednesday as most governors elected on the platform of the party boycotted the inauguration of the Gubernatorial National Campaign Council for Osun State. PDP had named a 128-member national campaign council, which included 12 governors. But at the inauguration…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mourners were nowhere to be seen as gravediggers in Nigeria’s southeast town of Ohaji-Egbema used shovels to place the unidentifiable charred remains of dozens who died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery into three mass graves. The bodies had started to decompose after not being claimed by family members at…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-When suit No FHC/ABJ/CS/344/2021 between Chief Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo Versus The Federal Government of Nigeria & 8 Ors was called at the Federal High Court Abuja on the 22nd day of March 2022 , the Delta State Government once again and other Defendants were not represented except the Central Bank of Nigeria…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Representatives of Delta State Government were conspicuously absent in Federal High Court, Abuja when the suit involving Federal Government return of £4.2m Ibori loot paid to the Federal Government by the United Kingdom government came up for hearing. The case came up for hearing on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 at the…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services gave “logistics difficulties” for not producing the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, in court on Monday, a member of the IPOB leader’s legal team, Aloy Ejimakor, has said. The lawyer stated this in a chat with The PUNCH on Monday. The PUNCH…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Working Committee (NWC) of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) met Tuesday at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja without Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, the suspended National Chairman. The meeting, which was held to prepare for the party’s March 17, 2020 emergency National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting, was presided over by…