LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former spokesperson of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, arrived the Federal High Court, Abuja, venue of his ongoing corruption trial on a stretcher after being taken down from an ambulance. .Metuh’s lawyer had, at the last adjourned date, informed the court presided by Justice Okon Abang that his client was at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja Federal High Court has validated the rejection of the Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes, Ibrahim Magu, by the Senate. The Senate had rejected the confirmation of Magu as chairman of Anti-graft agency due to security reports from the Department of State Services. The Senate spokesman, Senator Abdulahi…
LAGOS JNAURY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s finance minister plans to drag tax defaulters who don’t make use of an amnesty to court as she seeks funds to plug the nation’s $25 billion infrastructure gap. In the nine months of reprieve ending March, some penitent taxpayers have said “you got me” and cleared arrears without paying interest and…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ojo Magistrates’ Court, Lagos on Friday arraigned a 78 year old man, Joeseph Adetunji, for allegedly bathing his son’s face with acid. Adetunji who was remanded with his son-in-law, Abayomi Balogun, 60, is facing trial for conspiracy and assault for causing grievous harm. The Prosecutor, Police Insp. Uche Simeon, told the…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A community in Umuchu town in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State has been thrown into mourning after one of their prominent lawyers, Barrister Solomon Uzoigwe slumped and died in a court room during trial over a land matter. This caused pandemonium inside the court room as the lawyers who were…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has on Thursday dismissed the application by the Indegenous People of Biafra, IPOB to reverse the court’s order proscribing it and designating it as a terrorist group. The Acting Chief Justice, Abdu Kafarati, while delivering his ruling on the application, resolved all the three formulated…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court sitting at Mpape, on Tuesday, remanded the duo of Fidelis Anosike (first defendant) and his brother Noel Anosike, Publisher of Daily Times and Managing Director respectively , in prison custody over alleged N100million fraud. They were remanded at Kuje prison. They were sent to prison after they…