LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has granted an application seeking leave to serve the court papers on the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, over money laundering allegations. The court on Thursday granted the application directing the service of the papers through the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former General Manager and Head of Legal Services of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund, NSITF, Sir Adebayo Aderibigbe and one Ogundele Mura Yisa-Yemi have been arraigned in court for alleged N60 million fraud. They were arraigned on Wednesday by Nigeria’s anti-corruption agency, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), before Justice…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of peoples, were reported burnt to death to death at Saburi, Dei-Dei in Abuja Municipal Area Council AMAC of the Federal Capital Territory FCT on Thursday morning as a fuel tanker discharging its products exploded midway and went up in flames. Vehicles and motorcycles popularly known as okada were equally burnt…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has ordered the seizure of funds and assets that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, traced to a banker, Mr Aleshe Ayodeji, who allegedly deposited fake currencies worth over N20million, with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN. EFCC alleged that Ayodeji, who was in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senator representing Niger East Senatorial District in Niger state, Alhaji Mohammed Sani Musa on Saturday night narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by unknown gunmen in Minna the state capital. The suspected assailants were said to have trail the Senator who is seeking his second term into the red chamber in 2023…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two married men were arrested with a woman’s severed head in Abuja. Peter Ochigbo, 42, from Otukpo in Benue state, married to Rebecca Iche, and Samuel Bachu, 35, a married father-of-five, also from Otukpo in Benue state, were arrested this week by police in Abuja. When questioned, Peter Ochigbo said he was…
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Federal High Court Abuja, removing Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. A three-member panel of justices read by Justice Danlami Senchi on Monday held that Akpabio failed to file a proof…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama has ordered that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, be remanded in prison custody, following his alleged disobedience to a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Chizoba Oji, found the EFCC…