LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate in Gombe State identified Muhammad Suleiman Kumo has been convicted and sentenced two years and six months imprisonment for receiving N1 million bribe. Kumo who was a magistrate at Chief magistrate Court Pantami received the bribe in November 2024 through an account belonging to one Adamu Ahmed, the registrar in…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Homeland Security has apprehended a Nigerian national from Germany to the U.S. for defrauding a multinational company. The fraud suspect, Lotenna Chisom Umeadi, has pleaded guilty to defrauding a Sri Lankan company of $158,400 in an elaborate compromised email scheme after he was arrested and extradited to the United States upon arriving…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has announced that it will slam a fine of N150m per branch on Deposit Money Banks found guilty of facilitating the illegal flow of mint naira notes to currency hawkers and unscrupulous agents. The apex bank disclosed this in a circular issued on Friday, December 13, 2024,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Singaporean former minister pleaded guilty to bribery charges Tuesday after more severe allegations were dropped, local media said, as the first graft trial of a political office holder for more than four decades began in the city-state. Ex-transport minister S. Iswaran, known for helping bring Formula 1 to the financial hub,…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Hunter Biden, 54, became the first child of a sitting president to be convicted of a crime Tuesday after a federal jury found him guilty of three counts related to lying about his drug use in order to buy a gun. The panel of six men and six women deliberated for three…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President of Honduras Juan Orlando Hernández was found guilty Friday of drug trafficking by an American jury after a two-week trial in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors had accused Hernández, 55, of conspiring with drug cartels during his tenure as they moved more than 400 tons of cocaine through Honduras toward the…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Writer E. Jean Carroll was awarded $5 million Tuesday by a Manhattan jury that found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her — while clearing him of her rape claim. Carroll, 79, held her head down as the verdict was read in Manhattan federal court — and nodded…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical middleman have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide a kidney, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were convicted in a British…