LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High court in Lagos has summoned top officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos following a N3.7million bribery allegation by a convict, Mrs. Fatima Hassan. Justice Akintayo Aluko invited the Lagos State Commander of the Agency, Umar Isa Adoro; the Officer-in-Charge (O/C) of Squad A (Chief…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The convict was prosecuted following the receipt of a petition by the Oslo Police District, Norway, according to the EFCC. The Court of Appeal in Calabar on Friday upheld the conviction of an international fraudster convicted for internet fraud. Agatha Okeke, Federal High Court judge in Uyo, had on 27 June 2022…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate Court in Abia State, has convicted the former Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Sampson Ogah for forgery of the APC governorship primary election result. Ogah’s conviction followed a criminal complaint brought by his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Abia State. The Abia chapter…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers for the family of ex-Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara on Thursday demanded former president Blaise Compaore be extradited after he received a life term in absentia over the revolutionary icon’s 1987 assassination. A military court on Wednesday sentenced Compaore — who seized power in a 1987 coup coinciding with Sankara’s death…
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 NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A twenty-four year old South African police constable, Austin Luciano Reynold, has been found guilty for the 2018 murder of a Nigerian Ebuka Okoli in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal. Okoli was shot at close range during an unauthorised raid by the police officer, Reynold, on the community where he resides. He was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate President, Bukola Saraki has stated on Sunday that the monthly salaries and allowances of the jailed Senator representing Plateau Central cannot be stopped now by the National Assembly. Senator Dariye is currently serving 10 year jail term in Kuje prison, Abuja after 10 years of prosecution by the Economic and…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Cameroon on Friday convicted seven activists from the country’s Anglophone minority of rebellion and acts of terrorism and gave them sentences ranging from 10 to 15 years, a defence lawyer said. Authorities arrested Mancho Bibixy, a radio presenter in the English-speaking Northwest Region, and dozens of fellow activists last…