LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Management of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has concluded all necessary arrangements to prosecute any skits or filmmkers caught using the Agency’s uniform or its affiliated colour, kits and accoutrements without any authorisation from the Government. The General Manager of the Agency Mr. Olalekan Bakare-Oki frowned at the demeaning…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police has threaten to prosecute skit maker and comedian, Abdulgafar Abiola, popularly known as “Cute Abiola,” for rubbishing the police institution or grossly violating its provisions with regards to the use of uniforms. Condemning his action in a statement posted in Nigeria Police tweeter, Force Public Relation Officer, Olumuyiwa Adejobi…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the Osun Governorship Election Tribunal judgement, a leading Civil Society organisation, the Human and Environmental Development Agenda (HEDA Resource Centre) has charged the Independent National Electoral Election (INEC) to be circumspect and thorough with regards to all aspects of its responsibilities in view of their ultra-sensitivity. HEDA specifically wants INEC to…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday granted permission to a Civil Group, Incorporated Trustees of Center for Reform and Public Advocacy to apply for order of mandamus that will compel the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to prosecute the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Tinubu, over alleged perjury….
LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos Lawyer and Human Right Activist, Chief (Barr)- Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo has reiterated that it is criminal to parents to apply bleaching cream on children. Omirhobo who made the statement in a press release made available to NewsRangers that parents who indulged in such act should stop it immediately because it is…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has admonished “naysayers” to stop spewing negative and false narratives around Boko Haram members who are surrendering in droves in the North-East. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed gave the admonition in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Friday in Washington. NAN reports…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has warned that abusers of naira notes will be prosecuted by the financial regulator in collaboration with other regulatory bodies such as the Nigeria Police Force, Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit. The warning, according to the…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja in a landmark ruling today “restrained the government of President Muhammadu Buhari and its agents from unlawfully imposing sanctions or doing anything whatsoever to harass, intimidate, arrest or prosecute Twitter and/or any other social media service provider(s), media houses, radio and television broadcast stations, the…