LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kudirat Kekere-Ekun, the chief justice of Nigeria (CJN), has directed legal practitioners to stop using the title “Barrister” as a prefix to their names in all official engagements. The directive, conveyed in a memorandum dated July 13, 2026, was addressed to litigation staff, legal practitioners, court registrars and lawyers. According to…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some legal practitioners have expressed different opinions on the debate over the bill recently passed into law by the Senate. While some of them urged called on President Bola Tinubu not to assent to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act (Amendment Bill) 2024 passed by the Senate, others expressed the need…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-THE Pan Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, led by South South Leader, Chief Edwin Clark has denied reports that the body has asked lawyers to the 2023 Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, Atiku Abubakar, and Peter Obi respectively to apologize. In a statement yesterday by…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Social media users have started reacting to trending video photos and video clips of some prominent Nigerians and lawyers who were captured on TV sleeping during the proceedings of the presidential election petitions Tribunal Wednesday. Those seen dozing off some hours into the court session include the former Kano governor and national…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party has rejected the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court upholding the declaration of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC, as winner of the February 25, 2023 election. National Publicity Secretary of the party, Obiora Ifoh, made the party’s position known in Abuja, shortly after the court…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Today, it will be 40 days since the immediate past chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa, has been in the custody of the State Security Service (SSS). The embattled anti-graft czar, who has been languishing in the detention facility of the secret police in Abuja, popularly called…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja high court has ordered the Department of State Security (DSS) to immediately grant the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Mr Godwin Emefiele, unrestricted access to his lawyers and family members. The order followed an application filed by Counsel to Emefiele, Mr J.B. Daudu (SAN). Daudu informed…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Coalition of British lawyers of Igbo extraction has vowed to drag the Kenyan Government to the International Criminal Court, ICC, for detaining Nnamdi Kanu, a British citizen, and subsequently handing him over the Nigerian Government. The Coalition also gave the Nigerian Government 48 hours ultimatum to release Nnamdi Kanu, return him…
