LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal capital territory high court has ordered the Department of State Services (DSS) to charge Godwin Emefiele, suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to court if they have criminal allegations against him. Hamza Muazu, presiding judge, said the former CBN governor should be released on bail if he…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian court has directed President Bola Tinubu’s government to disclose how much in stolen funds it has recovered from late military ruler Sani Abacha and how the money was used, court documents showed on Sunday. Abacha ruled Africa’s most populous nation and top oil exporter from 1993 until his death in…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Swiss Police officers have reportedly appeared in court in connection with the death of a Nigerian man who suffered a fatal heart attack while being restrained during an arrest. The officers were charged with “homicide through negligence” in connection with the death of 39-year-old Mike Ben Peter, a Nigerian in Lausanne,…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 687,000 current and former Illinois residents who filed claims for a cut of Google’s $100 million biometric privacy class-action settlement can expect to see payouts of about $95 each. Any person who appeared in a photograph in Google Photos between May 1, 2015, and April 25, 2022, while they were…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Peter Obi, has persuaded the Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, to adjourn further proceedings on the case he filed to challenge the outcome of the presidential election that held on February 25. Obi, through his team of lawyers that were led…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, has filed a libel suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) demanding to be paid damages of N100 billion over claims that she is corrupt. In a writ of summons filed on her behalf at a federal…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos Chief Magistrate’s Court sitting at Sabo-Yaba, yesterday, ordered that afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, should spend four more days in police custody, over alleged assault on a police officer on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos. Chief Magistrate Adeola Olatubosun made the order sequel to a motion ex-parte brought by the police,…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Factional Acting Chairman of the Labour Party, Lamidi Apapa has affirmed that he will return to court on Friday for the hearing session of the Labour Party petition at the Tribunal. Despite the humiliation and near-death experience which he claimed he faced at the court premises yesterday, he still assured Nigerians…
