LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Nyanya in Abuja, has convicted internet fraudster, Farouk Olamilekan. The Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) arrested Olamilekan on January 29, 2021, in the Mpape area of Abuja. Operatives stormed the location after intelligence on his academy where young boys were trained on internet fraud….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Inyang Ekwo, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, has ordered a stay of proceedings in the N7.1 billion fraud case against Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia state governor. The EFCC had preferred a 36-count charge against Kalu and Ude Jones Udeogu, a former director of finance and accounts in…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Crisis rocking the transition process of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has deepened, as the Chief Uche Okwukwu faction has sued the newly elected President General. The crisis rocking the transition process of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has deepened, as the Chief Uche Okwukwu faction has sued…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Abuja has jailed a man for stripping naked to protest the impounding of his vehicle/arrest for violating a lockdown order in Abuja. Emmanuel Imhoudu, in a viral video on social media, protested the seizure of his car by the FCT COVID-19 Enforcement Team by stripping naked and screaming….
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…