LAGOS JANUARY 31ST(NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos on Thursday ordered the military to halt forced evictions of coastal communities after thousands of people were removed from their homes. Navy personnel last week shot in the air and bulldozed houses as they cleared a community of some 10,000 people living on an island in…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-A 67-year-old woman has been arraigned before the Lagos State Magistrate Court at Igbosere, Lagos, for allegedly hacking into a First Bank Plc account and stealing N16.2million. The woman, Wuraola Folashade Oluloye, was arraigned on a five-count charge of fraudulent diversion, was arrested following a complaint from Solomon Akhanolu, Head of the…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Ejama Community in Ogoniland have urged the Federal High Court in Lagos to jail the Chairman of First Bank Nigeria Limited, Mrs. Ibukun Awosika, over the bank’s alleged failure to pay them a judgment sum of N74bn. The community members had in 2010 got judgment against Shell Petroleum Development Company…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos Division of the Federal High Court on Friday ordered the final forfeiture of the N13 billion recovered in a flat in Ikoyi, Lagos. The money- $43,449,947; £27,800; and N23,218,000 – was stashed away in iron cabinets and ‘Ghana-must-go’ bags in the apartment at Flat 7B, Osborne Towers, Ikoyi. The Economic…
