LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Moscow court has begun considering a criminal case against a 72-year-old American accused of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine, Russia’s state news agency RIA reported on Friday. The man, identified as Stephen James Hubbard, was placed in pre-trial detention for six months, according to RIA. The Izvestia newspaper, citing a…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Mr. Junaid Sanusi, has filed a lawsuit against Access Bank Plc, seeking N100 million in damages for allegedly making unauthorized deductions from his savings account. Appearing before the Federal High Court in Ibadan on Monday, Sanusi argued that Access Bank had unlawfully deducted amounts exceeding the N50 electronic levy…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Police Command has arrested two mortuary attendants for selling human body parts to suspected ritualists. The Acting Police Public Relations Officer of the command, Giwa-Alade Emmanuel, disclosed this during a press briefing at the police headquarters in Osogbo on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. The mortuary attendants, Johnson Daniel, 43,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja based lawyer and human rights activist, Maxwell Opara, has dragged President Bola Tinubu and Mr Kayode Egbetokun to a Federal High Court in Abuja, asking the court to stop Egbetokun from parading himself as Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police. The Lawyer is also asking the court to declare that…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court has granted an exparte application filed by the State’s Attorney General, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Lawal Pedro seeking to restrict the proposed August 1 nationwide protest, in Lagos to the Gani Fawehinmi Freedom Park in Ojota and the Peace Park in Ketu. Justice Emmanuel Ogundare granted the order…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWRANGERS)-The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the world. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie appeared in a packed courtroom in the Indian Ocean port city of…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday, struck out a charge against celebrity bartender, Pascal Okechukwu (Cubana Chief Priest), over alleged abuse of the Naira. The judge struck out the charge following the adoption of terms of settlement between Cubana and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has denied bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police Abba Kyari. In his ruling, Justice Emeka Nwite stated that the decision to grant bail lies within the court’s discretion, in accordance with section 161 (2) of the Administration of the Criminal Justice Act (ACJA). Justice Nwite…