LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on February 18, 2021, ordered popular On-Air Personality, Ifedayo Olarinde, fondly referred to as Daddy Freeze, to pay the sum of N5m for committing adultery with one Benedicta Elechi. Daddy Freeze was ordered to pay the money to Paul Odekina, who was married…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN) has expressed disappointment that the convener of #RevolutionNow protests, Omoyele Sowore, has not been arraigned. The publisher of Sahara Reporters and presidential candidate of the African Action Congress in the February 2019 elections was arrested in the early hours of Saturday by operatives of the…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi, ousted by the military in 2013 after one year in office, has collapsed in a courtroom and died, officials say. A top figure in the now-banned Islamist movement Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi had just spoken from a cage at a hearing on charges of espionage. State TV said…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, has sued The Punch newspaper and Sonala Olumhense, a syndicated columnist, over an article they published on January 27, 2019. In the article, “This is the best contribution Obasanjo can make,” Mr. Olumhense recalled previous articles he had written about the two-time Nigeria leader, explaining that because of…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court in Abuja has discharged and acquitted Adolphus Wabara, former senate president, and two others, of allegations of receiving bribe for budget approval leveled against them by the federal government, 14 years after the suit was filed. The two other defendants who were set free by the court are Ibrahim…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday ordered the arrest of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, and directed that his trial on charges of treasonable felony should proceed in his absence. The judge, Justice Binta Nyako, whose decision was anchored on the provisions of Section 352(4)…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court in Abuja Wednesday ordered the arrest of a top Bayelsa State politician, Hon. Israel Sunny Goli, and two others over their alleged complicity in February 24 abduction of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP), Kola Okunlola, in Bayelsa State. Justice Abang’s order was sequel to…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers State High Court in Port Harcourt has granted an order restraining the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, from further publishing the name of the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Uche Secondus, in his looters’ list. Although the defendants or their representatives were absent in court, the Chief Judge…