LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Okon Abang has dismissed a suit filed by Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore. The suit is challenging and seeking to restrain the 2017 Open Grazing Prohibition and Establishment Law passed by the Benue State House of Assembly The court, on Thursday, also awarded…
LAGOS JUNE28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police on Wednesday arraigned a 25-year-old taxi driver, Kenneth Edet, in a Grade I Area Court in Mpape, Abuja, for allegedly kidnapping 10 children. The police charged Edet, who lives in Mpape, with one count of abduction. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Prosecution Counsel, Mr Edwin Ochayi, told…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Yenagoa on Monday declined an application to halt the renewal of Oil Mining Lease (OML) 29 pendingng the determination of an pending suit by Nembe communities in Bayelsa. The communities are seeking an environmental audit of the impact of the oil field on…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday ordered the immediate release of a commercial bus driver, Jones Ofori, who was detained for alleged robbery without trial since 2013. The court also ordered the police to pay him damages in the sum of N10m for his unlawful detention. Justice Muslim Hassan, who…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal panel hearing appeal filed by Osun State Governor, Alhaji Gboyega Oyetola against the judgement of 2018 Osun governorship election tribunal will deliver their judgement on Thursday May 9, 2019. The appeal panel in April adopted address of APC, INEC and Senator Ademola Adeleke’s counter appeal. The election tribunal…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stella Gilbert, a 36 year old lady resident in Ajegunle wailed uncontrollably on Tuesday few minutes after Justice Raliat Adebiyi pronounced death sentence on her for stabbing a fellow housewife, Mrs Stella Godwin to death during a fracas. The deceased is mother of three. She knelt down on the floor, wailing, “Mummy…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Osun State candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in last year’s governorship election, Senator Ademola Adeleke, will be arraigned today in Abuja, the police said last night. According to Force spokesman Frank Mba, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DCP), the senator was arrested and being detained in connection with ongoing…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian mother, Mrs. Oluremi Adeleye, whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in Maryland, United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Adeleye, 73, broke down crying in court as she spoke through an interpreter, saying, “It was a mistake. I did not want to kill…