LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Maryann Anenih of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, has fixed December 10 for ruling in the bail applications by former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello and two others. The Judge fixed the date after taking arguments for and against the bail request by Bello’s lawyer, Joseph Bodunde…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Children, Sexual and Gender-based Violence Court sitting in Awka, the Anambra State capital, on Monday, remanded two reverend sisters of a first generational church (name withheld), for illegal dealings and fraudulent adoption of children. Their names were given as Reverend Sister Angela Onyenachi Ibe, aged 42, and Mother-General, Reverend Sister Chiemelie…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian court has charged 26 men with conspiracy to commit a maritime offence and attempting to illegally deal in crude oil after authorities accused their supertanker of sailing in Nigerian waters without authority. The captain is an Indian national while the crew members are from Poland, India, Sri-Lanka and Pakistan, court…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, alongside his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, has been denied bail and remanded in custody by a United Kingdom court over allegation bordering on organ trafficking. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the UK Metropolitan Police formally charged Ekweremadu and his wife with conspiracy to facilitate the…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Shari’a Court in Magajin Gari, Kaduna State, on Thursday, ordered that two men, Nura Usman and Adamu Dauda, be remanded in a correctional facility for allegedly defecating in a mosque. The News Agency of Nigeria reported that the police charged Usman and Dauda with public nuisance andacinciting violence. The judge, Malam…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Thursday remanded three expatriates and six Nigerians for allegedly aiding and abetting terrorism, kidnapping and possession of illegal firearms. The men were identified as Bimaebi Johnson, Daniel Lemmer, Ghane Gordon, Hassan Hakeem, Gregory Smith, Ofem Uket, John Mark, Chidi Amadi and…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrates’ Court in Ake, Ogun on Friday ordered that a member of the Community Social Orientation and Safety Corps, otherwise known as ”So Safe Corp”, Akinwunmi Ismaeel, who allegedly shot his colleague be remanded in a correctional centre, pending legal advice. The police charged Ismaeel with murder. Magistrate I.M. Orekoya, who…