LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A federal judge will start hearing claims this week from the Justice Department and a group of states that Google abused its power as a monopoly over online search services. Google is synonymous with looking for information online and has leveraged its massively successful search tool to build a giant business spanning…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Adamawa governorship election, Aisha Dahiru, popularly called Binani has filed a lawsuit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). INEC declared null and void the purported declaration of Binani by the state Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) as the winner of the state…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A legal practitioner, Mr Edieke Jumbo has dragged the PRO of his Branch, Mr Uboho Atang to court over his removal from the Branch Whatsapp platform. Mr. Atang who is the PRO of the Ikot Ekpene Branch of the NBA and the Administrator of the branch Whatsapp chat platform was accused of…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele on Tuesday approached the Federal Capital Territory High Court in Abuja, challenging his detention by the Department of State Services (DSS). In his originating motion on notice, Emefiele is praying for the court to enforce his right to liberty and…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has sued President Bola Tinubu, over “the failure to probe the allegations that USD$2.1 billion and N3.1 trillion public funds of oil revenues and budgeted as fuel subsidy payments are missing and unaccounted for between 2016 and 2019.” SERAP filed a lawsuit against Tinubu at the…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A private Nigerian Airline, Air Peace Ltd, has sued the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress of Nigeria (TUC) before the Federal High Court in Lagos over the alleged disruption of its operations by the unions and its officers. The airline is asking the court to award it N1 billion…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, has filed a libel suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the attorney-general of the federation (AGF) demanding to be paid damages of N100 billion over claims that she is corrupt. In a writ of summons filed on her behalf at a federal…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the UFC and the wider mixed martial arts world’s most well-known stars just got a relationship bomb dropped on his lap. Moreover, his ex-girlfriend Charlotte Powdrell reportedly sued the fighter for half his wealth because “they dated too long and she supported his career.” As such, the little information we…
