LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Kano State has dismissed a bribery suit against Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, for lack of evidence. The suit was filed by a Kano-based lawyer Bulama Bukarti. The lawyer asked the court to mandate the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate Ganduje for allegedly receiving a kickback…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja granted bail to the chairman of the defunct pension reform task team Mr. Abdulrashid Maina in the sum of one billion naira with two sureties in like sum. Both sureties must be serving Nigerian Senators with no criminal cases before the court. Also, both sureties…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday barred the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from prosecuting a former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko. Delivering judgment on the suit instituted by Dikko, Justice Nnamdi Dimgba held that the non-prosecution agreement entered into between the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal high court in Abuja has issued a summon on the Special Adviser to President Mohammadu Buhari, and the Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Professor Charles Dokubo, to appear before it over his alleged illegal stay in office. The order was given by Justice Ahmed Mohammed on November 7 where…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An activists and Lagos-based lawyer, Malcolm Omirhobo, on Wednesday prayed a Lagos Division of the Federal High Court to halt operation ”Crocodile Smile 4” of the Nigerian military in the state. The lawyer filed the suit marked FHC/L/CS/1951/2019 under the provisions of the Fundamental Rights Enforcement Procedure Rules 2009. The applicant is…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Ibadan was in disarray as the Federal High Judge ordered the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to produce the 106 boxes, containing the N900 million allegedly stolen by two bank workers. The order was given Friday, October 4th,2019 .The National Agency of Nigeria, NAN reports that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court Sitting in Lagos has granted a final forfeiture to the Federal Government, the $40m worth of jewellries seized from the premises of the former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Allison-Madueke. Justice Nicholas Oweibo ruled that the former Minister had failed to show cause why the jewellries should not…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS No fewer than 6,721 concerned Nigerians as well as socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), BudgIT and Enough is Enough (EiE) have sued the National Assembly to stop it from spending N5.5billion to buy luxury cars for principal officials. The case which has been filed at the Federal High Court in…