LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman falsely declared dead has appeared in court via videolink from Nigeria to stop a convicted fraudster from seizing her £350,000 London home. June Ashimola, 55, was officially recorded as having died in February 2019, sparking a long-running legal battle over her estate. However, she stunned the High Court by…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWRANGERS)-The leader of a doomsday cult in Kenya went on trial on Monday on charges of terrorism over the deaths of more than 400 of his followers in a macabre case that shocked the world. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie appeared in a packed courtroom in the Indian Ocean port city of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Chinese billionaire banker Bao Fan, who has been missing for almost a year, has resigned from his financial firm, China Renaissance Holdings Ltd. He stepped down “for health reasons and to spend more time on his family affairs,” the bank said in a statement. Mr Bao’s unexplained disappearance in February last year…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (MEWSRANGERS)-More than three decades after a bomb brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing everyone aboard, a former Libyan intelligence official accused of making the explosive appeared Monday in federal court, charged with an act of international terrorism. The extradition of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi marked a…