LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal Lagos Division has discharged and acquitted a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, of a N754.8m fraud charge brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Friday, via zoom, the three-member panel of the…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos State High Court at Tafawa Balewa Square has acquitted and discharged Frederick Nwajagu, the “Eze Ndigbo of Ajao Estate,” of terrorism charges. The court had on Wednesday ruled that the Lagos State Government failed to prove any of the ingredients of the charges against Nwajagu. The judge, Justice Yetunde Adesanya,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ebonyi State High Court, sitting in Abakaliki, has discharged and acquitted 36 Pro-Biafra activists who had been detained for over four years. This is according to Ifeanyi Ejiofor, the lead counsel for the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB. Ejiofor made the announcement on Friday in Owerri, where he recounted the challenges…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Senior Magistrate Court in Kano State has dismissed the First Information Report (FIR) against 37 protesters arrested during the #EndBadGovernance protests. The court, presided over by Ibrahim Abubakar Mansur, also granted bail to 48 other protesters, but with stringent conditions. The protesters were represented by a coalition of legal professionals from…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday discharged and acquitted a Nigerian publisher, Agba Jalingo, of cybercrime. Mr Jalingo, who publishes an online newspaper, CrossRiverWatch, was prosecuted by the Nigeria police over a 30 June 2022 Facebook post in which he alleged that Alami Ayade, the wife to the younger brother…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zakzaky and his wife, Zeenah, had been in detention since 2015 when he was arrested after a clash in which the army killed an estimated 350 people at an IMN compound and a nearby mosque and burial ground in northern Kaduna state. The couple had been facing a range of charges filed…