LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Islamic court in northern Nigeria has ordered police to arrest and investigate 10 local celebrities for “immoral conduct” on social media that could influence youth, a judicial official told AFP Thursday. The court issued the order on Tuesday last week after lawyers filed a lawsuit, calling for their prosecution for singing…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) in Abuja on Friday ordered a substantial increment in the salaries of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) and other Nigerian judges. The trial judge, Osatohanmwen Obaseki-Osaghae, gave this order in her judgement, saying “judges have been victims of great injustice” and describing their poor…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Mexican drug cartel accused in the gruesome killings of nine women and children from an offshoot Mormon community must pay $1.5 billion to the families, a federal judge from North Dakota ruled. The family members of the victims filed a lawsuit accusing the Juarez cartel of carrying out the November 2019 attack in Mexico as…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in Burkina Faso on Tuesday ordered ex-president Blaise Compaore and nine others to pay more than a million dollars in damages to relatives of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara and aides who were assassinated in 1987. The order comes after a trial last month that sentenced the group to long jail…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federation of International Football (FIFA) has ordered the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pay former Super Eagles Coach, Gernot Rohr, his compensation of $378,000 (about N157million) following the early termination of his contract. Rohr, 68, had his appointment terminated by the NFF in December 2021, following the poor performance of the…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Brazil and Argentina lost their appeals to FIFA on Monday and will have to play the World Cup qualifying game that was abandoned last year in Sao Paulo amid chaos on the field caused by pandemic rule breaches. In one of the most bizarre scenes during the qualifying program for the World…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, psc(+), NPM, fdc, has ordered the review of police personnel and operational assets deployments to schools and colleges around the country, to ensure the protection of schools and colleges, particularly boarding schools, tertiary institutions, and its campuses in areas prone to security breaches around…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice, sitting in Accra, Ghana, has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to amend Section 24 of its Cybercrime (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act of 2015, in order to ensure conformity with the country’s obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the International Covenant…