LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former soccer star Robinho was ordered to hand over his passport while Brazilian judicial authorities determine whether he should serve his nine-year sentence for rape in Brazil. Robinho was convicted in Italy in 2017 for his part in the group sexual assault in Milan that took place four years previously, when he…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman who has been wanted in Italy since 2010 has been flown from Abuja back to Rome where she has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for crimes including running a prostitution ring, Italian police said on Wednesday. Joy Jeff, who is 48, was one of the few women…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian woman has been arrested after being caught with 600 grams of heroine at Alghero Airport, Sardinia, Italy. The unnamed lady was said to be at the airport’s arrival lounge having just disembarked from a flight from Bologna, Northern Italy, when she was spotted by officers of the Guardia di Finanza,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Italian customs police on Monday dismantled a Nigerian organized crime syndicate that forced dozens of young women into prostitution and begging on the streets of Italy and then smuggled out millions of euros in ill-gained revenues to Nigeria, with cash hidden in suitcase handles or pasta packages. The police said raids in…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Italian ports faced an influx of hundreds of migrants on Saturday, as a charity ship sailed toward a Sicilian port with 236 people rescued in the Mediterranean from traffickers’ boats, while Italian coast guard and border police brought 532 others to a tiny island. The maritime rescue group SOS Mediterranee said…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A drug trafficker, Goodluck Igbineweka Odeh, has been intercepted at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, NAIA, with 2 kilogramme of heroin, which has a street value of N564 million, concealed in the lining of false bottom of his suitcase. The 40-year-old suspect from Ikpoba Okha Local Government area of Edo State…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Milan court acquitted energy company Eni, its chief executive and Royal Dutch Shell on Wednesday in the oil industry’s biggest corruption case revolving around the $1.3 billion acquisition of a Nigerian oilfield a decade ago. The sentence, read out in court by judge Marco Tremolada, came more than three years after…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ethiopian migrant who became a symbol of integration in Italy, her adopted home, has been killed on her farm where she raised goats for her cheese business, police said on Wednesday. A Ghanaian employee on her farm in the northern Italian region of Trentino has admitted to killing Agitu Ideo Gudeta,…