LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former tennis star Boris Becker was on Friday jailed for two and a half years after being found guilty by a British court of charges relating to his 2017 bankruptcy. The six-time Grand Slam champion, 54, will serve half of the term having been convicted at Southwark Crown Court in London over […]
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian atheist has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by a high court in the northern state of Kano after being convicted of blaspheming Islam. Mubarak Bala, the 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, pleaded guilty to all 18 charges and asked for leniency. He has been in […]
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man, Sunday Osemeahon, has been sentenced to 32-year imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of the murder of another Nigerian, Obasanjo Adeola Owoyale. The accused person, Osemeahon had allegedly killed the victim, a family friend who had given him a lift after withdrawing a high sum of money from […]
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on January 24, 2022, secured the conviction of a serial disabled fraudster, Gabriel Chimezie, before Justice M.T.M Aliyu of the Kaduna State High Court on a four-count charge of obtaining by false pretense. A statement released by Wilson Uwujaren, spokesperson […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar on Friday sentenced detained U.S. journalist Danny Fenster to 11 years in prison after finding him guilty on several charges, including incitement for allegedly spreading false or inflammatory information. Fenster, the managing editor of the online magazine Frontier Myanmar, was also found guilty of contacting illegal organizations […]
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has sentenced Abdulrasheed Maina, the former chairman of the now-defunct Pension Reformed Task Team to eight years imprisonment. Maina was convicted after he was found guilty of money laundering. In a judgement delivered on Monday by Justice Okon Abang, the court held that the prosecutor, the […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Algiers court on Thursday sentenced a former presidential candidate and retired general to four years in prison for undermining army morale, the official APS news agency reported. Ali Ghediri had said he would stand in Algeria’s April 2019 election against longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The ailing autocrat’s decision to seek a […]
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Indonesian social affairs minister Juliari Batubara has been sentenced to 12 years in prison over a multi-million dollar COVID-19 graft scandal, the Jakarta Corruption Court ruled on Monday. A judge said the former politician was found “convincingly guilty of corruption” after receiving 32.4 billion rupiah ($2.25 million) in kickbacks in relation […]
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced one 34-year-old fake Customs officer, Yakubu Azeez Afolayan, to 20 years imprisonment having found him guilty of offences bordering on impersonation and job scam. The convict was allegedly parading himself as Customs officer. In the assumed capacity, the […]
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine pirates who attempted to hijack a ship in Togolese waters in May 2019 have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to 20 years during a trial at a Lome court. It was the first time pirates have been tried in Togo, one of the West African countries with coastline […]
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