LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday refused to admit a former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, to bail pending the determination of a suit he filed against the Federal Government. Justice Inyang Ekwo declined to compel the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to release him on bail. Okorocha representing…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 42-year-old prince, Ademola Omoniyi, to death by hanging for killing the traditional ruler of his community. Omoniyi was arraigned on one count of murder contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap. C16, Laws of…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted a former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Interior, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia in relation to the botched 2014 recruitment exercise in the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, in a judgment on Thursday, found Mrs Daniel-Nwobia guilty of breaching the Public Procurement…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal high court in Abuja has ordered that Abba Kyari, suspended deputy commissioner of police (DCP), be remanded at a correctional centre pending the conclusion of his trial. Kyari who has been in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) since February 12 was arraigned on March 7…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presiding judge of the Federal High Court, Umuahia, Abia State, Justice Evelyn Anyadike, has declared as unconstitutional, null and void, Section 84 (12) of the Amended New Electoral Act 2022. The court in a judgement on Friday, ordered the Attorney-General of the Federation to immediately expunge the Section from the Amended New Electoral Act. It held…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Tuesday, sacked the Ebonyi State governor, David Umahi, his deputy, Kelechi Igwe, along with 15 lawmakers in the state over their defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). Messrs Umahi and Igwe, in November last year, defected from the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Representatives of Delta State Government were conspicuously absent in Federal High Court, Abuja when the suit involving Federal Government return of £4.2m Ibori loot paid to the Federal Government by the United Kingdom government came up for hearing. The case came up for hearing on Wednesday, February 9th, 2022 at the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, dismissed a case challenging the federal government’s directive to broadcast stations to delete the Twitter handles. The suit was instituted by the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) following the directive of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) stopping broadcast from using Twitter after the…