LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos pastor has been accused of hiring people to kill his female colleague for being more popular. According to a report by The Nation, the pastor in charge of The Life House Ministry, Ojo Barracks, Ojo, Lagos, Pastor Benjamin Akinsanya was on Tuesday arraigned before an Igbosere Chief Magistrate`s Court for…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A twenty-four year old South African police constable, Austin Luciano Reynold, has been found guilty for the 2018 murder of a Nigerian Ebuka Okoli in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal. Okoli was shot at close range during an unauthorised raid by the police officer, Reynold, on the community where he resides. He was…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-seven Nigerian men pleaded innocent on Wednesday to a charge of public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term. Homosexuality is outlawed in many socially conservative African societies where some religious groups brand it a corrupting Western import. The Nigerian men, who…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain and member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi state, Hon. Charles Oko Enya, has beseeched a Federal High Court in Abakiliki, Ebonyi state, to direct the National Assembly and the Attorney-General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, to expunge constitutional clauses barring elected President and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former member of ‘Plantashun Boi’, Ahmedu Augustine, popularly known as Blackface, has finally dragged his former friend, Innocent Idibia to court for allegedly stealing his song. The singer revealed that he waited this long before filing a complaint in court because he was waiting for 2Face to do what’s right. He wrote…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, the All Progressives Congress (APC) Deputy governorship candidate for the Bayelsa governorship election has been disqualified for the forthcoming Guber poll. Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, disqualified the APC Deputy governorship candidate in the November 16 governorship election in Bayelsa State, South-south Nigeria on Tuesday. Justice…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A lecturer, Mr. Christopher Adejoh, has filed a fundamental rights enforcement suit before a Federal High Court, Lagos, against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) demanding the sum of N100 million as damages. Christopher, a College of Education lecturer, in a suit marked FHC/L/CS/1950/19, filed by his lawyer, Prince Chijioke Chinewubeze,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 77-year-old visually-impaired man, Kareem Adebayo, was on Wednesday arraigned before a Magistrates’ Court sitting in Osogbo, Osun State, for alleged possession of a substance believed to be Indian hemp. Adebayo appeared before Magistrate Risikat Olayemi on two counts bordering on possession of Indian hemp. The accused, it was learnt was caught…
