LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This may not be the best of times for the former Lagos Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Ngozi Braide, after a lady reportedly swindled her N3.7m at a popular beauty and cosmetics store. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Vadang Beauty & Cosmetics Store located at Maryland area of Lagos, where…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s leading anti-corruption group, Human and Environmental Development Agenda, (HEDA Resource Centre) has dragged to court the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mr Abubakar Malami, over the Asset Tracing, Recovery and Management Regulations, 2019. HEDA said certain sections contradict the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), the Immigration Act and the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine filed a supreme court challenge on Monday seeking cancellation of the results of a presidential election that handed victory to incumbent Yoweri Museveni, his party’s lawyer said. Museveni, a former guerrilla leader who has led the East African country since 1986, was declared winner of the Jan….
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano state high court (appeal division) has set aside the death sentence imposed on Yahya Sharif Aminu, a Kano-based singer, convicted for blasphemy. Nuraddeen Sagir, the state chief judge, who presided over the case, delivered judgement on Thursday He said the trial was full of irregularities as the appellant was not…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ugandan opposition leader Bobi Wine’s party will challenge President Yoweri Museveni’s election victory. Speaking in a news conference on Sunday (January 17), National Unity Party’s Maathias Mpuuga also condemned what it called the house arrest of Wine and his wife. “We have evidence of ballot stuffing and other forms of election malpractice…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee will today know its fate as an Abuja Federal High Court decides on the legality of its existence. Former APC National Vice Chairman, South-South, Mr. Hillard Eta, had in December 2020 approached an Abuja Federal High Court to declare him as acting National…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja, has admitted Olisa Metuh, former National Publicity Secretary, of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to N250 million bail. Justice Maha ruled that the surety must be a responsible citizen and owner of landed property/properties within the jurisdiction of the court which value should not be below the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The head office of Seplat Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) has remained shut, a full week after it was sealed off on the back of a court order instituted by Access Bank Plc. According to reliable sources, both parties appeared in court during the week, with Seplat seeking the court’s approval to vacate…