LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The forgery trial of a former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, before the Lagos State Special Offences Court in Ikeja was stalled on Monday as the ex-minister was absent from court. He is standing trial over the alleged use of false documents, fabricated evidence and procuring execution of documents before an Ikeja…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has stopped the Independent National Electoral Commission from engaging the services of the chairman of the Lagos State Parks Management Committee, Musiliu Akinsanya, popularly known as MC Oluomo, to distribute election materials in the state pending the hearing and determination of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Enugu State has said it has arrested the woman in a trending video allegedly extorting money before issuing Permanent Voter Cards to their owners. This was contained in a statement by the command Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Thursday in Enugu. “Police detectives serving in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept the nomination of candidates of the Labour Party (LP) in 24 States of the federation for the purpose of the 2023 general elections. The court ordered that the electoral body must accept the list of…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, set aside the Nov. 4, 2022, interim forfeiture order on 40 landed property linked to Sen. Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice. Justice Inyang Ekwo, in a ruling, said he had found that the application for forfeiture filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One Sydney Mmeka, a former Regional Manager of Access Bank Plc, who is being prosecuted by the Lagos Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, is planning on fleeing the country amid an alleged N50 million fraud charged against him. This was disclosed during the sitting of the Special Offences…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jude Ozuogu, 40, and his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu, 24, have been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for child abuse in Enugu. Justice A. C. Ogbuabor of an Enugu State High Court sentenced the couple for maltreating their 10-year-old maid named Chinonye Nnadi in July,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Point of Sale terminal operators and Lagos-based human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, have said they will sue the Central Bank of Nigeria if it fails to withdraw the new cash withdrawal policy limiting over-the-counter cash withdrawals by individuals and companies to N100,000 and N500,000, respectively, per week. The CBN had, in the…
