LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has refused to bar Godwin Obaseki, the Edo State Governor, from participating in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary election slated for Thursday. Mr Obaseki was granted a waiver by the PDP recently after he joined the opposition party from the All Progressives…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chief Magistrates’ Court in Gwagwalada, FCT, on Friday ordered Zenith Bank PLC to reverse payment of 8,541 dollars from the account of one of its customers, Mr Ida Gabriel. Delivering judgment, Magistrate Aliyu Shafa, held the defendant (Zenith Bank Plc) was not able to prove to the court that the said…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The High Court of the FCT has reaffirmed and extended its order making Chief Victor Giadom, the acting National Chairman of the APC following the Appeal Court’s approval of the suspension of Comrade Adams Oshiomhole from the party and office. The High Court also ordered Comrade Mustapha Salihu, the party’s National Vice…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja, has adjourned until June 29, hearing in a preliminary objection filed by Mr Adams Oshiomhole challenging the court’s jurisdiction to entertain the fundamental rights enforcement suit he instituted against the Edo government. Justice Ahmed Mohammed on Wednesday, adjourned the matter after taking arguments from parties in the…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) scheduled to take in Edo state has suffered a set back as a Federal High Court in Benin, Edo state on Monday granted an order restraining the party and its national chairman from conducting the exercise. The court ordered the party and…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu entered Courtroom 317 of the Jerusalem District Court on Sunday to become the first serving Israeli premier to stand trial, sitting on the defendant’s bench and answering “yes” to confirm he had read the corruption charges in the three cases against him. The prime minister will be allowed…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Lateefat Okunnu of the Ikeja High Court Friday sentenced Akolade Arowolo to death over the death of his banker wife, Titilayo Omozeje in 2011. Arowolo who is a youth pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Gbagada Parish, Lagos, southwest Nigeria, has been on trial in the court since…
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,…