LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Abia State Governor, Orji Uzor Kalu, has filed an application at the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to unfreeze his bank account. He is also seeking an order of the court to strike out his name and that of his company, Slok…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Abia State Governor and Chief Whip of the Senate, Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, has said he will be ready to contest the All Progressives Congress(APC) presidential ticket with former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, if the party wins the ticket to the South. Speaking in an interview on Tuesday, Kalu…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Inyang Ekwo, a judge of the federal high court in Abuja, has ordered a stay of proceedings in the N7.1 billion fraud case against Orji Uzor Kalu, former Abia state governor. The EFCC had preferred a 36-count charge against Kalu and Ude Jones Udeogu, a former director of finance and accounts in…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely 24 hours after the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos ordered his release, Senate Chief Whip, and former Abia State governor, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, has regained freedom after six months incarceration. He stepped out of Kuje Correctional Centre this evening after the completion of his release formalities. The court had…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has launched a massive probe into alleged looting of over N150 billion by the immediate past governor of Abia State, Chief Theodore Orji, and members of his family. His sons – Chinendum Orji Eyinanya (currently Speaker, Abia State House of Assembly) and one Ogonna Orji…
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…