LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS) -Missouri became the first state to sue the Chinese government, citing “an appalling campaign of deceit” related to the coronavirus pandemic. The civil lawsuit was filed Tuesday in federal court by GOP state Attorney General Eric Schmitt, claiming Chinese officials are “responsible for the enormous death, suffering, and economic losses they inflicted on the world,…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has filed charges against four supermarkets and their proprietors in Abuja for alleged arbitrary hike of prices of sanitisers, handwash liquids, disinfectants, and other anti-bacterial hygiene products. Court documents made available to Channels Television by the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Council (FCCPC) named the four supermarkets, which also…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Tanko Muhammad, has ordered all courts in the country to shut down from Tuesday. The CJN, in a statement he issued on the official website of the National Judicial Council, NJC, said the measure became necessary, in view of the reality of the COVID-19 in…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrates’ Court in Ake, Ogun on Friday ordered that a member of the Community Social Orientation and Safety Corps, otherwise known as ”So Safe Corp”, Akinwunmi Ismaeel, who allegedly shot his colleague be remanded in a correctional centre, pending legal advice. The police charged Ismaeel with murder. Magistrate I.M. Orekoya, who…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, held its state congress in Benin City yesterday to elect officers to pilot affair of the party for the next four years. At press time, accreditation of party delegates for the election had been concluded and voting was about to commence….
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The High Court Monday approved Chief Victor Giadom as Acting National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, ahead of the key emergency meeting of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the party this Tuesday in Abuja. Giadom, the party’s Deputy National Secretary, who is the highest ranking official, has been…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Prosecution witness, Kazeem Yusuf, on Friday alleged that 78 companies collected various sums of money from the office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd), without executing any contracts. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in 2015 charged former Minister of State Finance, Bashir Yuguda, Dasuki, a former Sokoto State governor, Attahiru Bafarawa, his…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The elders of Kano State under the auspices of Advocates for a United Kano have condemned the dethronement of Muhammadu Sanusi II as the Emir of Kano by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, vowing to challenge what it described as the brazen acts of illegality perpetrated by the government of the state. Recall that…