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…
