LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man in northern Nigeria has been sentenced to two weeks in prison after neighbours complained that he was storing bags of human faeces outside his home, which they said made life unbearable. Mohammed Saidu was taken to court in the city of Kano after residents reported the foul smell to environmental…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 39-year-old Ireland-based Nigerian, Brian Ogbo, has been sentenced to three and a half years’ imprisonment for killing his 82-year-old grandmother, Stella Nnadi, during what an Irish court described as a severe psychotic episode. PUNCH Metro learnt on Sunday from a report by the Irish Mirror that Ogbo was sentenced by…
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…