LAGOS MMAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Ambassador to Cape Verde, Justina Eze, has dragged an old-generation bank to court over her box of gold, diamond, coral beads and other materials allegedly kept in the custody of the bank. The jewellery box, valued at about N1 billion, was said to have been kept in the vault of the bank’s…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Donald Trump has sued Michael Cohen, his former attorney and “fixer” who has emerged as a key witness in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against Trump, for $500 million — alleging that Cohen “spread falsehoods” about him and violated a confidentiality agreement. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A journalist with an online news platform, Swift Reporters, Adewole Kehinde, last Saturday sued the Independent National Electoral Commission over the denial of access to his voter card. Printouts and text messages exchanged with the commission’s official sighted by our correspondent show that Kehinde, a publisher with the news agency, transferred his…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Simon Mamoh, a Nigerian, has filed a N406 million lawsuit against Khairul Dzaimee Daud, Director-General of the Malaysian Immigration Department, and three other people for what he claims to be illegal detention and deportation. Mamoh claims that the immigration division of the nation held him against his will for 40 days before…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja based lawyer and rights activist, Mr Mike Enahoro-Ebah, has dragged presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, to court over alleged certificate forgery, age falsification and lying on oath. Enahoro-Ebah, in three separate direct criminal complaints filed at the Chief Magistrate Court in Wuse Zone 6,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A sacked Area pastor of Living Faith Church (aka Winners’ Chapel) in Palm Street Extension, Atakpa, Calabar South local government area of Cross River State, Dominion Esang Winner, has dragged the church to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NIC), Calabar Judicial Division, for unlawful dismissal from the ministry. Esang, a graduate…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights activist and academic has sued Attorney General of the Federation, National Orientation Agency (NOA), national human rights commission and nine media outfits as fourth-twelve defendants before Federal High Court, Abuja for unsubstantiated ascription of bandits or terrorists attacks in various parts of the country to people of Fulani extraction….
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Chris Eburu, manager of the late veteran musician Victor Uwaifo, has been charged to court over an alleged forgery of the latter’s will, the singer’s family recently announced. The family made this known while distancing itself from alleged plans by Chris to raise funds for the one-year anniversary of the singer’s death….
