LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian court on Thursday ordered the immediate release of a woman held in detention since February accused of being a member of a banned separatist organisation, her lawyer said. The court in Abuja ruled that the police had illegally detained Ngozi Umeadi and ordered it to pay her damages of 50…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Myanmar’s military TV station announced Monday the army has declared a one-year state of emergency after taking power and detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and other top ruling party leaders. The coup comes after escalating tensions between the civilian government and the military following last November’s elections, which Nobel Peace Prize winner…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shippers Association of Lagos State (SALS) has raised the alarm that 28 containers of export products from Minna, the capital of Niger State have been detained at the ports since September, 2020, and are still languishing away due to unworkable Federal Government import and Export Adjustments policies. In a statement made…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Afrobeat star, Seun Kuti, who went to the Lagos Police Command on Tuesday morning over the security siege to his Ikeja residence, was reportedly arrested and detained. Sources close to The Movement of the People (MOP), a political platform he had been floating with some activists and youth organisations, that Seun Kuti…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There are fears that Lance Corporal Martins Idakpini, the detained soldier arrested for criticising Chief of Army Staff, Tukur Buratai, may have been killed by the army as punishment for his action, it has been gathered. SaharaReporters had earlier reported how the army twice denied Idakpini’s lawyer and family from seeing him in…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended chairman of the anti-graft agency, EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, has been released. He was released on Wednesday evening. A family source who asked not to be named informed this newspaper that Mr Magu arrived at his official residence at about 5 p.m. in the Maitama District of the Nigerian capital. Although…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has detained a Brigadier-General, Charles Nengite, after the discovery of $16 million in a bank account belonging to his wife by the United States. The General is currently being detained by the Special Investigations Bureau, a department in the Nigerian Army that handles matters relating to fraud and money…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar is in touch with the parties involved in the months-long detention of journalist and human rights activist, Agba Jalingo. Segun Showunmi, Atiku’s spokesperson gave the hint in a post on his official Twitter handle: @SegunShowunmi on Saturday. The former Vice President’s aide wrote: “The Agba Jalingo case is…