LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State has rejected any suggestion that Saturday’s governorship election is over, saying it is reviewing the results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) before deciding its next move. The party said it would consult its legal team and consider all constitutional and legal…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger State Police Command has arrested a suspect, Elijah Ahmed, for stealing eight refrigerators in a hotel where he works. The spokesperson for the command, SP Wasiu Abiodun, who disclosed this in a statement at the weekend said five of the stolen refrigerators were recovered from the suspect while he sold…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war. Assad fled from Damascus to Moscow with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his family’s five-decade grip…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Osun State’s Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Oluwole Jimi-Bada on Wednesday, said he has the mandate of the governor to sue the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission after the anti- graft agency froze government accounts. Jimi-Bada said a ‘Post no debit’ letter from the EFCC was forwarded to the management…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil Society Organisation (CSO), the Kwechiri Unity Forum, has filed a lawsuit against the Minister of Works, David Umahi, and the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Olatunji Disu, alongside others, over Mary Habila’s death. Habila, a female nurse attached to Umahi, was brought dead to the David Umahi Federal University Teaching Hospital,…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The controversy trailing the just concluded national election of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA, has taken a new twist as a group of lawyers has asked the Abuja Federal High Court to stop the swearing in of the President-elect, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, SAN, and other newly elected national officers. Badejo-Okusanya secured 12,317 votes…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday affirmed Sen. David Mark’s leadership of the African Democratic Congress (ADC). Justice Musa Liman, in a judgment, also dismissed the suit filed by Rep Leke Abejide challenging Mark and Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola as national chairman and national secretary of the party for lacking merit….
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2027 presidential ambition of Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso suffered a fresh setback on Friday after a Federal High Court in Lokoja set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to register the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, as a political party. DAILY POST reported that Justice…
