LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Senior pastor of the Commonwealth of Zion Assembly (COZA), Biodun Fatoyinbo, has asked the FCT High Court to dismiss the suit filed by Photographer, Mrs Busola Dakola. In an application filed through his lawyers, he also demanded that he is awarded a sum of N50 million as damages. According to the application,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Incorporated Trustees of Digital Rights Lawyers Initiative has sued the Advertising Practitioners Council of Nigeria over the latter’s planned regulation of Internet advertisements. In a suit filed before the Federal High Court in Lagos by two lawyers, Solomon Okedara and Olumide Babalola, DRLI is seeking a court declaration that APCON lacks…
By Amos Odeh LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Felt robbed of victory at the governorship primary election through flawed electoral processes, Chief Ndutimi Alaibe, one of the foremost contestant in the alleged manipulated race has taken a bold step in search of redress. Our correspondent reports that On Friday September 13, 2019, Alaibe approached the Federal High…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year-old pastor’s wife, Blessing Okechukwu, has appeared before an Ajegunle Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly burying a live pig in her husband’s church compound, on Tuesday. The Prosecution Counsel, Insp. S.I. Bassey told the court that the defendant committed the offence around 1.40 a.m. on September 3, at the National…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The PSG player and the Catalan giants are suing each other over the Brazilian’s move to Paris two years ago. Neymar and Barcelona are set to meet in court, just three weeks after the club’s failed bid to sign him from PSG, and with speculation already rife over whether the Camp Nou…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has vowed to appeal the judgment of the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos that discharged and acquitted a former Senior Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan on Domestic Affairs, Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, and a banker, Joseph Iwuejo, who were charged with N1.6bn fraud….
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, has urged the court to order the return of her 2,149 pieces of jewellery and a customised gold iPhone, valued at $40m, which were seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Diezani, who is currently in the United Kingdom, accused the EFCC…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Femi Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN), says the government will be making a mistake if it files charges against Omoyele Sowore. Sowore, who is the convener of #RevolutionNow movement, has been detained by the Department of State Services (DSS) since Saturday. The DSS had accused him of threatening public peace…