LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence. Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted abusive comments about Islam as he held the flaming book aloft in Rutland Gardens in Knightsbridge on 13 February. On Monday he…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-U.S. journalist and author Masha Gessen was convicted in absentia Monday by a Moscow court on charges of spreading false information about the military and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The Moscow-born Gessen, a staff writer for The New Yorker and a columnist for The New York Times who lives…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court sitting in Dawaki, Abuja, on Monday, convicted four Boko Haram financiers. The convicts are Modu Aisami, Zana Zarama, Umar Mohammed and Bunu Kame. A statement by the Special Assistant on Communication and Publicity to the Attorney-General of the Federation, Kamarudeen Ogundele, said the prosecution, led by the AGF…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Wednesday 19 July, the trial of three Vietnamese and one Guinean national accused of trafficking 7.1 tonnes of pangolin scales and 850 kgs of ivory concluded in Nigeria with the conviction of the four accused. The judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria in Lagos sentenced the accused to six…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has convicted former Senior Special Assistant on Media to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe, of breaching the Money Laundering Act. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu presiding over the case on Monday found Okupe guilty of contravening sections 16(1)&(2) of the Money Laundering Act and accepting cash in…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has convicted a former Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Interior, Mrs. Anastasia Daniel-Nwobia in relation to the botched 2014 recruitment exercise in the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS). Justice Nnamdi Dimgba, in a judgment on Thursday, found Mrs Daniel-Nwobia guilty of breaching the Public Procurement…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa on Thursday said that over three million kilograms of drugs have been intercepted and seized by the agency. Marwa said this during the Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN) 2021 Annual Lecture and Award Ceremony with topic: “Proliferation…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Peter Kekemeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Nyanya in Abuja, has convicted internet fraudster, Farouk Olamilekan. The Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC) arrested Olamilekan on January 29, 2021, in the Mpape area of Abuja. Operatives stormed the location after intelligence on his academy where young boys were trained on internet fraud….