LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anxiety has continue to mount over the whereabouts of the suspended CJN, JusticeWalter Onnoghen as stern looking armed security operatives from both the Nigerian Police and the Department of State Service, DSS, were alleged to have cordoned off his premises situated within the Three Arm Zone of the Federal Capital Territory. The…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justices of the Supreme Court on Saturday shunned the inauguration of members of the election petitions tribunal by the Acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Mohammed. The event was held at the Supreme Court Complex, Abuja on Saturday.It was observed that unlike the custom where justices of the Supreme Court…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The third force movement under the aegis of the Nigerian Intervention Movement (NIM), have given President Muhammadu Buhari seven days to reinstate the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen or face unprecedented mass action. NIM being jointly led by a frontline civil right activist and legal icon, Dr Olisa Agbakoba SAN…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday disclosed that millions of dollars have been traced to the accounts of the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen. In a speech at the swearing in of the acting CJN, Tanko Mohammed, Buhari dwelt extensively on the corruption case against Onnoghen and how lawyers and…
By Inibehe Effiong LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The purported suspension of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Honourable Justice Walter Onnoghen, by President Muhammadu Buhari is unequivocally unconstitutional, illegal, immoral and grossly indefensible. What General Buhari has done, putting it mildly, is a brazen coup against democracy. The following 20 (twenty) points are worth noting: 1….
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – President Muhammadu Buhari has suspended the embattled Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen. President Buhari announced the suspension Friday at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the suspension followed the order of the CCT directing him to suspend Onnoghen, pending the completion of his…