LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday sought court order, joining the three Zamfara senators and 27 other lawmakers who defected from the the party to All Progressives Congress (APC) in a suit against Gov. Bello Matawalle. The PDP, through its counsel, O.J. Onoja, SAN, told Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)- Meet the man who is so obsessed with sueing. He was recently selected for an award by the Guinness World Record for having the biggest number of lawsuits in courts. He instead sued the Guinness World Record body too for involving him in their awards without his consent. There are many…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The ECOWAS Court of Justice has served hearing notice on the Buhari government in the suit filed by SERAP and 176 Nigerians on the unlawful suspension of Twitter. The suit is fixed for 22 June 2021 for the hearing of application for interim orders, SERAP said on Twitter on Monday night. “Having…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-militants from the coastal area of Ilaje Local Government area of Ondo State, have protested over the non-payment of their monthly allowances and threatened to drag the Presidential Committee on Amnesty Programme to court over the development. The former militants who alleged to the Federal Government that their monthly allowances and other…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-DAAR Communications PLC, owners and operators of Africa Independent Television, Raypower FM and Faaji Radio, has declared its readiness to challenge the National Broadcasting Commission’s stance on the suspension of Twitter. Following government’s order for broadcast organizations to deactivate their Twitter accounts on Monday, DAAR Communications has declared a legal battle with…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Pastor with the Omega Fire Ministries International, Mike Davids, has sued the General Overseer of the church, Apostle Johnson Suleman, and the church for N2bn, for unlawfully interfering in his marriage. Davids had last week accused Apostle Suleman of hypnotising and committing adultery with his wife, Pastor Faith Edeko, who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja has been asked to compel President Muhammadu Buhari to sack all the service chiefs over their alleged failure to curb insecurity in the country. In the suit that was lodged by the governorship candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, in Adamawa State, Alhaji Said Uba,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Law Students Association of Nigeria has dragged the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), before the Federal High Court Abuja, challenging what it described as the incessant strikes of the union. In the suit which was filed at the court on Friday, the association is seeking an order to compel ASUU to…