LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lawyer to Simon Ekpa, the controversial Finnish-Nigerian separatist leader, has reacted to reports that the self-proclaimed leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) will be extradited to Nigeria. According to media reports (not THE WHISTLER) on Tuesday, Finnish authorities confirmed that Ekpa will be extradited on July 15, 2025 to…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer, Inibehe Effionge, on Monday, said over N10 million has so far been raised to support the 17-year-old minor, Quadri Alabi, who went viral during campaigns for the 2023 general elections when he stood in front of the convoy of a former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi. Effiong spoke…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has denied ownership of the $52.8m loot recently repatriated from the US. Diezani, through her lawyer, Mike Ozekhome (SAN), in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, debunked claims of owning the money. The Federal Government had recently announced that the US government $52.88m said…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Mr. Junaid Sanusi, has filed a lawsuit against Access Bank Plc, seeking N100 million in damages for allegedly making unauthorized deductions from his savings account. Appearing before the Federal High Court in Ibadan on Monday, Sanusi argued that Access Bank had unlawfully deducted amounts exceeding the N50 electronic levy…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja based lawyer and human rights activist, Maxwell Opara, has dragged President Bola Tinubu and Mr Kayode Egbetokun to a Federal High Court in Abuja, asking the court to stop Egbetokun from parading himself as Nigeria’s Inspector General of Police. The Lawyer is also asking the court to declare that…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A client who admitted trying to murder his own solicitor in his office has been jailed for 11 years. Esayas Neguse entered the Glasgow office of Muhammad Shoaib in September 2022 and stabbed him in the neck and body with a knife. As two of Shoaib’s colleagues tried to intervene, he headbutted one…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Mr Edieke Jumbo has dragged the PRO of his Branch, Mr Uboho Atang to court over his removal from the Branch Whatsapp platform. Mr. Atang who is the PRO of the Ikot Ekpene Branch of the NBA and the Administrator of the branch Whatsapp chat platform was accused of…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Festus Ogun has condemned a section of the Democracy Day speech President Bola Tinubu delivered on Monday. “It has become imperative to state here that the unnecessary illegal orders used to truncate or abridge democracy will no longer be tolerated,” Tinubu said in his nationwide broadcast. In response, the…