LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos High Court has sentenced a police officer, Darambi Vandi, to death by hanging for shooting dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on the last Christmas Day. Justice Harrison sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square annex division of the Lagos state High Court said his defence…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday remanded two boys, Farouk Mohammed, 16, and Kasali Jamiu, 19, at the Special Correctional Centre for Boys, Oregun, and the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, respectively. Justice Sherifat Sonaike remanded them after they were charged with the murder of a Redeemed Christian…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Billionaire kidnap kingpin , Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike known as Evans has been sentenced to death by a Lagos High Court on Thursday. At the sentencing by an Igbosere High Court in Lagos, Evans who was charged with kidnapping had pleaded not guilty. He was also charged for attempt to kidnap the chairman of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos based rights campaigner, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo has asked a Federal High Court in Lagos for an order stopping the interference and involvement of the Nigerian Army in the restoration of order in the Nation after the EndSars protest. Joined as first to 10th respondents are: The Lagos State Government, Lagos…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court has sentenced notorious kidnap kingpin, Chikwudubem Onwuamadike, also known as Evans, to death. The court gave this judgement on Monday. Evans was arrested in June 2017 and arraigned on a two-count charge of conspiracy to commit kidnapping and kidnapping. The Lagos State Government had said Evans conspired on…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has declined a move seeking the final forfeiture of two properties belonging to a former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki. Justice Mohammed Liman turned down the move in a ruling on Monday over insufficient and conflicting affidavit evidence filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two women were seeing weeping as a Federal High Court, Lagos sentenced former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu to 12 years in prison on Thursday. The court convicted Kalu to spend 12 years in jail on 39 counts bordering on N7.2 billion fraud and money laundering. While being taken out of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former governor of Lagos State, Akinwunmi Ambode, has dragged the State House of Assembly to court over the probe of his administration’s procurement of 820 buses worth N7 billion for public transport. A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Tuesday ordered the assembly’s speaker, Mudashiru Obasa, to appear before it. Justice Y.A….
