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…
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 JUNE 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Maiduguri-based businessman, Umar Bashir, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment without option of fine for terrorism financing. The convict who claimed to be a major dealer in oil perfumes and also a Point Of Sales, POS, operator, was found guilty of using his account number 2213629628 with the United Bank…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister the African Democratic Congress (ADC) and four other political parties over alleged failure to meet constitutional requirements for continued registration. The judge, Peter Lifu, made the order in a judgement on Monday. He noted that the…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been found guilty of two counts of rape and given four years in prison. The three judges in courtroom 250 at Oslo District Court cleared him of two other counts of rape, but found him guilty of many of the…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian court has convicted 11 Indian sailors and their vessel over the trafficking of cocaine into the country, imposing fines totaling $6 million, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said on Thursday. The Federal High Court in Lagos found the crew of the merchant ship MV Aruna Hulya guilty…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Anambra State Government has arraigned eight pastors, suspected of being fake, before a state high court in Awka for allegedly violating the Anambra State Homeland Security Law 2025. Operatives of the Agunechemba vigilante group were seen in a video clip guarding the defendants into the court building on Friday. Ken Emeakayi,…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-According to a report by Sahara Reporters on Tuesday, 26 May, 2026, in a case that has ignited widespread outrage across Nigeria, a hardworking 26-year-old barber from Bwari in Abuja has taken the bold step of suing the Nigeria Police Force and the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) of Bwari for a staggering…