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…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three soldiers behind a failed coup in Gabon in 2019 have been sentenced to 15 years’ prison, the prosecutor told AFP on Thursday. The three, including Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang who was a member of the elite Republican Guard, had gone on state television on January 7, 2019, calling for a “public…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s top court has jailed former president Jacob Zuma for “egregious” contempt of court after he refused to appear before a corruption investigation he himself set up. Mr Zuma, 79, was told to turn himself in within five days or face arrest in a landmark victory for rule-of-law campaigners who accuse…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Managing Director of Bank PHB (now Keystone Bank), Mr. Francis Atuche standing trial for stealing the sum of N25.7 billion belonging to the bank have been found guilty of theft and sentenced to six years imprisonment. His former Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Ugo Anyanwu standing trial alongside him was also…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six Ugandan soldiers were handed prison sentences of up to three months by a military court on Thursday for taking part in the brutal beating of local journalists covering the country’s opposition leader. The seven injured journalists were covering an effort by opposition leader Bobi Wine to file a petition on Wednesday…