LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kogi State Chief Judge, Justice Nasir Ajanah, has granted an interim order for Senator Dino Melaye to be transferred to the National Hospital Abuja, while hearing for his bail conditions will be heard on Monday, next week. The Chief Judge gave the order at the High Court in Lokoja, on Friday…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mike Ozekhome, the lawyer representing embattled Kogi State senator, Dino Melaye, has opened up on the trial of his client earlier today. Dino Melaye had on Thursday appeared before a Kogi court over alleged criminal conspiracy. He was consequently remanded in Police custody till June 11. Ozekhome, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria,…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Embattled Senator Dino Melaye representing Kogi West Senatorial district has been remanded in Police custody for the next 38 days pending the commencement of hearing in the suit brought by police against him and three others. The Senator who was arraigned before a magistrate court, Lokoja on charges of gunrunning, kidnapping, amidst…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The representative of Kogi West Senatorial District, Senator Dino Melaye, has arrived Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, Channels Television is reporting. A statement on Wednesday by the Force Public Relations Officer, Jimoh Moshood, had hinted of Melaye’s arraignment. Melaye, according to the Channels Television report, was conveyed in an ambulance by the…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police Force, on Wednesday, arraigned Senator Dino Melaye before a Chief Magistrate Court in Abuja for attempting to kill himself by jumping out of a vehicle conveying him to Lokoja to face criminal allegations against him. Dino who was wheeled inside the dock in a stretcher, pleaded not guilty to…
LAGOS MAY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, is expected to appear before the Senate on Wednesday (today). He will be grilled by the lawmakers on the arrest, detention and hospitalisation of Senator Dino Melaye. The appearance will be broadcast live on Nigerian Television Authority. The upper chamber of the National Assembly had last Wednesday…
By Eze Onyekpere LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The failed recall of Senator Dino Melaye on Saturday provides an opportunity for lessons to be drawn from the implementation of the recall constitutional provisions. Out of 189,870 signatories to the petition for Melaye’s recall, only 18,742 were verified by the Independent National Electoral Commission. This is a paltry…
Chief Sunny Onuesoke is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Delta State, and former governorship aspirant. In this interview he bears his mind on some key issues in the country. Excerpts: The Senate and House of Representatives have summoned President Buhari to address a joint session of National Assembly on the raging…