LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The battle for the removal of Adams Oshiomhole as the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) is far from being over as the national vice-chairman northeast of the party, Salihu Mustapha, declared that only the Court of Appeal could reinstate him despite the judgement of the Federal High Court that…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal high court sitting in Abuja, presided over by Justice Maha held that The Court has no jurisdiction to entertain matters bordering on the domestic affairs of political parties. He said the issue of nomination fees is a domestic affair of political parties. It would be recall the APC presidential Aspirant and…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the service on President Muhammadu Buhari and six others, court processes of a suit against the appointment of Justice Tanko Muhammad as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). Justice Ekwo gave the order shortly after a human rights lawyer, Chief…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos-based constitutional lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, has asked a Federal High Court, Abuja, to decide whether due process was observed in the suspension of Justice Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria. The lawyer, suing through Registered Trustees of Malcom Omirhobo Foundation, urged the court to declare the said suspension of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Committee for the Protection of Peoples Mandate (CPPM) on Thursday approached the Federal High Court Abuja for an Order of Mandamus compelling the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) “to make available either directly to the Applicants or through the Courts, copies of the 2015 and 2016 Tax Receipts of Alhaji Atiku…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Police on Wednesday brought Senator Dino Melaye in a magistrate Court in Abuja, newsmen report. He was brought in on a stretcher by police officers who prevented journalists from coming closer to him. Reports have it that security officers stopped vehicular and human movement in the court vicinity. Melaye was accused…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday nullified the National Assembly Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, 2018, which ought to provide the order in which Independent National Electoral Commission must conduct the 2019 general elections. Delivering judgment in a suit filed by Accord Party to challenge the bill, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, yesterday, trashed seven of the nine-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, preferred against former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, Mr. Robert Azibaola. The court, in a ruling by the trial judge, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, also discharged and acquitted Aziboala’s wife, Stella, of all…