LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced two women arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their involvement in terrorism to 40 years in prison. The convicted women — identified as one Safiya Salihu and one Halima Abdullahi — are said to be the mother and…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government on Monday began the arraignment of more than 400 terrorism suspects before judges of the Federal High Court in Abuja. The suspects are being arraigned in batches simultaneously in several courtrooms at the Federal High Court complex, with many regular cases put on hold to allow judges to participate…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has cleared former President Goodluck Jonathan to contest the 2027 presidential election. A faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) led by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki had last week reportedly granted Jonathan a waiver and adopted him as its preferred presidential candidate. However, an Abuja-based lawyer,…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS) A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the interim forfeiture of nine properties linked to Timipre Sylvia, former minister of state for petroleum resources, to the federal government. Obiora Egwuatu, presiding judge, made the order on April 24 following an ex parte application filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal high court in Abuja has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from recognising or participating in any state congresses organised by a caretaker leadership of the African Democratic Congress, African Democratic Congress (ADC). In a judgment delivered on Wednesday, Joyce Abdulmalik, presiding judge, held that the four-year tenure of…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a major food supplier to the Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State, Hamatu Modu to 40 years imprisonment for his involvement in terrorism activities. Modu, who confessed in the open court to supplying food items and information to terrorists,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has declared the seat of House of Reps menber, Abubakar Gummi vacant for defecting from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The court stressed that lawmakers must not move with the mandate of the people to another party. Gummi, who represents…
By Emmanuel Udom The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Directorate has secured the conviction and sentence of one Jonathan Wallang before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting in Maitama Abuja, for defrauding the Cooperative Society of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, the sum of…