LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-All eyes were on Cour De’appal De Cotonou, Benin Republic, yesterday, for the arraignment of Yoruba Nation agitator, Chief Sunday Adeyemo, fondly called Sunday Igboho, since his arrest on Monday night. Hordes of his supporters had since morning trooped to the court in anticipation of his appearance. The environment got tension-soaked as…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate Minority Leader, Enyinaya Abaribe, on Wednesday said he would stand surety for the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu again given the same circumstances. The Senator explained he stood surety for Kanu when the IPOB leader was arraigned because it was a condition imposed by the…
LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Human rights lawyer, Chief Malcom Omirhobo, has filed a suit against the federal government at the Federal High Court, Abuja, praying the court to declare Nigeria’s membership of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) as illegal. Aside the Federal Government, other defendants are the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Special Fraud Unit (SFU) of the Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday opened evidence in the trial of a seven-member syndicate that allegedly defrauded customers of First City Monument Bank (FCMB) of N900 million. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the case is before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of an…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Candidate of the Hope Democratic Party, HDP, in the last presidential election, Chief Ambrose Owuru, has approached the Federal High Court in Abuja, asking it to declare the seat of President Muhammadu Buhari vacant. Owuru, who was among the four petitioners that went to tribunal to challenge President Buhari’s re-election, in his…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Europe’s biggest bank, BNP-Paribas, has been charged with “laundering” tens of millions of euros worth of public money in France for the family of Gabon’s late leader Omar Bongo, in what plaintiffs have called a “historic first”. After decades of relative impunity, French courts have in recent years sought to clamp down…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Olanrewaju James, popularly known as Baba Ijesha, has been granted bail. This information is credited to his lawyer, Mr. Adesina Ogunlana. CASEFILE was informed on Monday evening that though he is still in police custody, effort is ongoing to perfect his bail. According to his lawyer, “He is still in police custody…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eighty-two years old, head of Adogun Itele family, Pa Nurudeen Akapo and four other principal members of the family have asked an Ogun state high court to restrain former President Olusegun Obasanjo and his farm, Obasanjo Farms Nigeria Limited, from further trespassing on their family land measuring 464.77 hectares situated at Sogunro-Itele…