LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has successfully obtained a conviction against Ibrahim Musa Dabai in Kano state. Dabai was found guilty of a single-count charge related to manipulating Nigerian currency. It was reported that Dabai was arrested by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) officers on the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. During…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two brothers were sentenced to 22 years each in federal prison for allegedly conspiring to traffic more than 7,700 pounds of cocaine from Colombia to the Unites States on “low-profile” boats, authorities said. Robin Castro-Gomez, 36, and Alvaro Castro-Gomez, 41, pleaded guilty last September to conspiring to possess with intent to distribute…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has convicted and sentenced to death by hanging, two former members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad for extra-judicial killing. Recall that five members of the SARS team, ASP Samuel Chigbu, Shedrack Ibibo, Magus Awuri, Ogoligo, and Olisa Emeka were standing trial for killing Michael Akor…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An employee of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Jude Ozuogu, 40, and his wife, Ifeoma Ozuogu, 24, have been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment for child abuse in Enugu. Justice A. C. Ogbuabor of an Enugu State High Court sentenced the couple for maltreating their 10-year-old maid named Chinonye Nnadi in July,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s athletics federation says last week’s conviction of two of its athletes for their part in a fraud scheme uncovered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is “sad and damaging” for the country. On 10 November, Emmanuel Ineh and Toluwani Adebakin were convicted for transferring tens of thousands of dollars to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two TikTok stars in Nigeria have been sentenced to a whipping and forced to clean the court after they used social media to mock a government official. Mubarak Isa Muhammed and Muhammed Bula were found guilty of defaming Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of the northern state of Kano. The pair’s lawyer said they…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was confusion in Ibom State High Court as Uduak Akpan, the first accused in the murder of Akwa Ibom job seeker, Iniobong Umoren, was sentenced to death by hanging. Akpan attempted to escape shortly after the sentence was announced by the trial judge, Justice Bassey Nkanang, on Thursday. Our correspondent reports…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Leslie Shumaker Downey was at home babysitting her two grandchildren Monday when a message pinged on her cellphone. Her daughter had sent a link to a news article about a 57-year-old man with terminal heart disease. Three days earlier at the University of Maryland Medical Center, he’d received a genetically-modified pig heart….