LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Renowned human rights lawyer, Olisa Agbakoba, SAN, former lawmakers, Senator Shehu Sanni and Nkoyo Toyo, have called on President Bola Tinubu to halt further implementation of anti-masses policies, as Nigerians were experiencing harrowing hardship. Tinubu on his inauguration had announced the immediate withdrawal of fuel subsidy and would later devalue the Naira,…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed two aides and kidnapped their boss, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The kidnappers also shot three of the police escorts attached to the senior lawyer. It was gathered that the policemen, who sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack, have…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Elections constitute a livewire that gives real meaning to democracy on which great nations have been built but a popular known lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Jubril Samuel Okutepa, SAN, said that Nigerian case is the reverse. The learned Silk, also said that the conduct of elections in Nigeria is a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The 91-year-old lecturer at Faculty of Law, Adeleke University, Ede, Prof. Toriola Oyewo Ajagbe is dead. Ajagbe was promoted to the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria in 2021 after he clocked 90 years. Our correspondent gathered that the nonagenarian died at the University College Hospital, Ibadan on Tuesday where he…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 500 persons have signed a petition to force the title of senior advocate of Nigeria removed from the Attorney General of the Federation Abubakar Malami. Izu Aniagu began the petition on Change.org, predicating his petition on the recent unilateral amendments to the Rules of Professional Conduct for Legal Practitioners…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In reference to the Osun Guber Appeal Court Ruling which was held in Abuja 9th May, The PDP candidate Senator Ademola Adeleke has officially hired about 7 SANS ( senior advocates of Nigeria ), 17 other senior counsels who are set to challenge the judgement at the Supreme Court. .In reference to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-APC Presidential aspirant Mr. Christmas Akpodiete will appear in court with forty two human right Lawyers as the case awaits hearing at the Federal High court holden at Abuja. Among the lawyers are five Senior Advocates Of Nigeria (SAN), eighteen of his legal classmates and nineteen probono Lawyers. Two week ago, the…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Legal Practitioners Privileges Committee (LPPC) on Thursday, confirmed 31 lawyers as Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SAN). The list was announced during a briefing at the Supreme Court complex in Abuja. The Secretary of the Committee, Hadizatu Mustapha said the successful candidates will take their oath on September 24. The new SANs…