LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the remand of activist and African Action Congress (AAC) presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, at the Kuje Correctional Centre. He will remain in custody until Wednesday when proceedings will resume on a two-count cybercrime charge the Department of State Services (DSS) filed against him for…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court in Abuja has granted bail to former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, for one hundred million naira, with one surety in like sum. Naija News reports that Justice Abdulmalik, while delivering the ruling on Monday, held that the proposed surety must reside in…
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 JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has denied bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. In his ruling, Justice Emeka Nwite stated that the decision to grant bail lies within the court’s discretion, in accordance with section 161 (2) of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act (ACJA). Justice Nwite…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court Abuja has granted erstwhile Commander of the Force Intelligence Response Team, DCP Abba Kyari, temporary bail for two weeks on passionate grounds, to go bury his mother. Kyari was granted bail to the tune of 50 million Naira and a surety in like sum….
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Businessman and socialite, Pascal Okechukwu, popularly known as Cubana Chief Priest, was, Wednesday, arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos for alleged spraying and tampering with naira notes at social events. Cubana chief priest, who pleaded not guilty to the charge was, however, admitted to bail in the sum of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele has finally fulfilled his bail conditions and has been released from Kuje Prison secretly, THE WHISTLER has gathered on Friday. A source in the prison who revealed the ex-CBN governor release via a text message said, “Emefiele was released quietly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former central bank governor was freed on bail after spending the past five months in prison. A court in the capital, Abuja, released Godwin Emefiele on Wednesday, his lawyer Johnson Usman said by phone. The court ordered Emefiele to surrender his travel documents, Lagos-based newspaper Punch reported. Emefiele, 62, has been…