LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The federal high court sitting in Abuja has ordered the extradition of Chukwuemeka Onyegbula to the United States of America to face trial over allegations of wire fraud and identity theft. Justice Inyang Ekwo made this order while delivering judgment on the application filed by the federal government. The court ordered that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An Assistant Inspector-General of Police and Head of the National Central Bureau, INTERPOL Nigeria, Garba Umar, on Thursday, disclosed why the Federal Government has failed to extradite a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, over corruption allegations and trial. Umar, while appearing before the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee to…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers for the family of ex-Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara on Thursday demanded former president Blaise Compaore be extradited after he received a life term in absentia over the revolutionary icon’s 1987 assassination. A military court on Wednesday sentenced Compaore — who seized power in a 1987 coup coinciding with Sankara’s death…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Justice Minister Abubakar Malami has cautioned a Federal High Court (FHC) in Abuja against granting bail to suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari in his ongoing extradition case. Malami, in a counter-affidavit to the bail application by Kyari., said the embattled officer could abscond…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abuja Division of the Federal High Court yesterday ordered the service of fresh hearing notice in the suit seeking to stop the Nigeria Police Force and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, SAN, from arresting and extraditing the suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police, DCP, Abba…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an ex-parte application for an order restraining the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ruling on Thursday, said he was not…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There are strong indications that the police authorities may not hand over the Commander, IGP Intelligence Response and Monitoring Team, Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, to the United States for criminal prosecution. It was gathered that the battle to extradite Kyari to the US for trial for alleged involvement in…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-France on Friday cleared the extradition of Francois Compaore, the brother of Burkina Faso’s former president, to his home country where he is wanted in connection with the murder of a prominent journalist. The Council of State, France’s highest court for cases involving public administration, rejected an appeal by Compaore’s lawyers against…