LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A tribunal in Argentina on Wednesday upheld a six-year prison sentence and a lifetime ban from holding public office against former President Cristina Fernández, a dominant political leader in recent years in the South American country. Fernández was convicted and sentenced in 2022 by a three-judge panel for a fraud scheme that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Wednesday’s judgement of the President Election Petition Court will not mark the end of the controversies trailing the outcome of the 2023 presidential election. News Direct recalls that the five-man panel, in a final judgement read by Justice Haruna Simon Tsammani, struck out the three petitions filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Labour…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth, Nigeria (ERA/FoEN) has applauded the decision of a Dutch Court of Appeal in favour four Bayelsa farmers impacted by oil spills. Dutch court on Friday ordered the Nigerian subsidiary of Shell to pay compensation over oil spills in Bayelsa. The Court of Appeal in The Hague …
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors Forum has backed the bid of the party to challenge the verdict of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, which dismissed the petition of the party and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, at the Supreme Court. The forum in a statement by its chairman and Governor of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Election Tribunal on the 2019 polls has announced that it will deliver judgement on the petition filed by the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, tomorrow, Wednesday, September 11, 2019. A breaking news on this by Channels Television on Tuesday afternoon noted that “all…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Between Monday and Friday this week, the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal must hand down its verdict in the suit filed by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, on the outcome of the February 23 presidential election. Although the tribunal did not give a specific date for…