LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Tarkwa Circuit Court in Ghana has sentenced a 32-year-old Nigerian woman, Patience Gold, to 20 years in prison for trafficking four young women, including one living with HIV from Nigeria to Ghana for forced prostitution. According to Graphic Online, a Ghanaian news outlet, on Thursday, the presiding judge, Hathia Manu, found […]
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Collor de Mello, Brazil’s first democratically elected president after a decades-long dictatorship, resigned in 1992 after Congress launched impeachment proceedings against him for allegedly taking bribes. His arrest stems from a conviction over bribes taken two decades later while a senator, part of the sprawling “Car Wash” corruption scandal. The 75-year-old was […]
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have been sent home to the US to serve the rest of their jail terms. The three were originally sentenced to death by a military court before their sentences were commuted to life in prison […]
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Bauchi, Bauchi State, has convicted two bigwigs of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state for conspiracy and money laundering involving N142 million. Saleh Gamawa and Aminu Gadiya were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for receiving the total of N142,460,000 in cash […]
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former tennis champion was jailed earlier this year for hiding more than £2m in assets and will be deported next week without having to serve his remaining sentence Boris Becker is set to be deported to Germany next week having served less than eight months of his two-and-a-half year sentence. The […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A Lagos Federal High Court, today, convicted and sentenced a freight forwarder, Omoniyi Ajibola Isaac, to a five year-imprisonment, for unlawful export of 27. 250 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa, also called marijuana. Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa, who presided over the court, gave the 37 years old convict, the jail terms, after he […]
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights activists from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, a strong rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine ruptured decades of nearly uninterrupted peace in Europe, and to the Belarusian president, his authoritarian ally. The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2022 prize to […]
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRAGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Thursday sentenced a fake Army General Bolarinwa Abiodun, whose real name is Hassan Ayinde to seven years in prison for impersonation and N266.5 million fraud. The convict also disguised as the Chief Of Army Staff (COAS) to carry out the N266.5 million fraud. The News Agency […]
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Church will let justice take its course after the High Court in Malawi sentenced a priest to 30 years in prison for the murder of a man with albinism, said Archbishop George Desmond Tambala, president of the Malawian bishops’ conference. Five other suspects were handed life sentences. One of them was […]
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of the Mexican megachurch La Luz del Mundo was sentenced Wednesday to more than 16 years in a California prison for sexually abusing young female followers who said he made them his sex slaves. Naasón Joaquín García, 53, abruptly pleaded guilty last week in Los Angeles Superior Court to three […]
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