LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State on Tuesday delivered a landmark judgment confirming the authority of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB) to collect the one percent Nigerian Content Development Fund (NCDF)levy from every contract awarded in the Nigerian oil and gas upstream transaction as mandated under…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For placing a restriction order on some customers’ accounts, Zenith Bank has been ordered to pay N2 billion in favour of Tsami Babi Nig. Ltd, Amsamay Ltd and M A.Y Fine Fragrance as damages. A Lagos High Court sitting at Court 44, Commercial Division, Osborne Foreshore, Phase2 Court House, gave the order….
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The writer E. Jean Carroll on Wednesday told a Manhattan jury a harrowing story of being raped in the mid-1990s by Donald J. Trump in a department-store dressing room — describing a brutal attack that she tried to fight off by stamping on his foot and that has left her traumatized for…
LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRAGERS)-A new suit seeking to halt the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s new President on May 29, 2023, has been filed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The suit marked CA/CV/259/2023 filed by Hope Democratic Party (HDP) is praying the court for an order stopping the inauguration. The…
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawyer of the anti-Tinubu passenger aboard an Abuja-Lagos flight has disclosed that his client, Mr Obiajulu Uja, from Oji-River Local Government Area, Enugu State, will be charged on Monday. The lawyer, Ejike Ugwu, queried the decision to prosecute Uja, whom he said was mentally challenged. Ugwu said,” The DPO said the…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former soccer star Robinho was ordered to hand over his passport while Brazilian judicial authorities determine whether he should serve his nine-year sentence for rape in Brazil. Robinho was convicted in Italy in 2017 for his part in the group sexual assault in Milan that took place four years previously, when he…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, that of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi and the Allied Peoples Movement (APM) on Friday, secured the leave of the Presidential Election Petition Court to serve the President elect, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu with their processes challenging his (Tinubu’s)…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s opposition Labour Party candidate Peter Obi has filed a court petition challenging last month’s disputed presidential election, the party said, kicking off what could be a long legal campaign lasting several months. There have been numerous legal challenges to the outcome of previous Nigerian presidential elections but none has succeeded. Obi…