LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has filed a suit against the federal government at the Federal High Court, Abuja, praying the court to declare Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as illegal. Aside the Federal Government, other defendants are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested more suspects in connection with the murder of the Chief Executive Officer of Super TV, Usifo Ataga. The Lagos Police Commissioner, Hakeem Odumosu, made this known during a parade of some suspects at the command headquarters in Ikeja on Wednesday, without giving details. “We have…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Mai Mala Buni, chairman Caretaker Committee of the APC said the postponed ward, local government and state congresses of the party would start from 31 July. He said this today in Abuja at the presentation to President Buhari of the two renegade PDP governors, Bello Matawalle of Zamfara and Ben Ayade…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice President of ECOWAS Court Hon. Justice Gberi-bè Ouattara (Côte d’Ivoire) on Friday, 9 July, 2021 consolidated Barrister Malcolm Omirhobo’s Suit and three other suits contesting the indefinite suspension Twitter by the Federal Government of Nigeria. The ECOWAS Community Court in Abuja equally renewed its interim order barring the Federal Government of…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver using a Dangote Sugar Refinery truck to allegedly smuggle rice has been arrested by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said on Tuesday. The Abuja commandant of the NCS, Hussein Ejibunu, said on Tuesday that two accomplices were arrested alongside the driver at Suleja, Niger State. He said the truck was…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An FCT High Court, sitting in Kubwa, Abuja on Tuesday ordered a 21- year-old student, Abraham Umuibe to sweep Mpape Government Secondary School for 90 days. Umuibe swindled a Chinese woman of N113, 000, online. Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya said the court gave the unusual sentence because it has been enjoined to give…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to pay the sum of N81.9 billion as cumulative damages to the oil communities in Ibeno Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom over oil spillage within 14 days. This follows the case filed…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of 75 Northern groups under the aegis of Northern Consensus Movement on Thursday announced a reward of N100 million for persons who can produce leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, for continuation of his trial for alleged treason. The groups, which disclosed this while briefing…
