LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Sherifat Solebo of the Lagos Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a self-acclaimed prophetess, Linda Mabi-Praise to five years imprisonment over a fraud of N128 million fraud. Mabi-Praise was sentenced after she was found guilty of the allegation brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)….
LAGOS AUGUST 13 (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lokoja Chief Magistrate’s Court has sentenced a staffer of Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC), Mr James Olayemi, to six months imprisonment for unlawful disconnection of electricity supply to the premises of the company’s customer, Dennis Osanwuta. In the judgment delivered on Thursday in Lokoja, the Chief Magistrate, Dr Tanko Muhammed, also…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, may be released by the Cour D’Appal De Cotonou today Monday. This is according to Ibrahim Salami, one of the Benin Republic-based lawyers representing Mr Igboho. In an interview on BBC, Ibrahim Salami explained that Igboho has two more stages to undergo before he…
LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from rioting in South Africa rose to 72 on Tuesday as police and the military tried to halt the unrest in poor areas of two provinces that began last week after the imprisonment of former President Jacob Zuma. Many of the deaths in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal provinces occurred in…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Shehu Sani, a former federal lawmaker, has lambasted members of the House of Assembly for considering a bill to jail protesters in Nigeria. A bill was presented to the House of Representatives for consideration during the week and seeks to jail what they termed unlawful protesters in Nigeria. The bill, sponsored by Rep….
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Emeka Isiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State has convicted and sentenced a fake Travel Agent: Iheanacho Chikwendu, to seven years imprisonment for defrauding her victims the sum of N9,000,000.00( Nine Million Naira only). He was jailed on March 19, 2021 after a four- year trial in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old Wisconsin school staffer who sexually abused a 16-year-old student — and told police she was going through “extensive personal issues” in her life at the time — has pleaded guilty. On Monday, former Green Bay school staffer Courtney Roznowski was sentenced to six months in jail after pleading no contest…