LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice L.N. Oweibo of Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Thursday sentenced Captain Peter Okomi to one year imprisonment for illegally dealing in petroleum products. Also convicted and sentenced was his firm Moyitok Nigeria Ltd and a vessel, M.V. Agbeke. The convicts were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Robert Farkas, the founding father of a cryptocurrency agency Centra Tech that raised greater than $25 million from its preliminary coin providing rip-off, pled responsible in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday. The official assertion accused Farkas of conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud and ordered a sentence between 70…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A far-right Norwegian man was jailed for 21 years on Thursday (June 11) for murder and anti-terrorism offences. Philip Manshaus, now 22-years-old, shot and killed his Chinese-born stepsister in their family home last year, then drove to the nearby al-Noor Islamic Center and fired several shots but hit no one. He was…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An evangelical pastor was jailed for 34 years in Britain on Friday, after he was convicted of a catalogue of rape and sexual abuse against children and adults over two decades. A judge said self-styled prophet Michael Oluronbi carried out “one of the worst cases of sexual abuse” against children to come…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has secured the conviction of Zachaeus Atte, a former Commissioner for Agriculture in Kogi State. Atte was convicted on corruption charges by a Kogi State High Court sitting in Okene, Kogi State and presided over by Hon. Justice J.J Majebi. He was…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary. The stowaways also threatened to kill crew…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Pastor of a Cherubim and Seraphim Church, called Solomon Opaalade, has been jailed for stealing a goat and turkeys and threatening the owner with charms. The Principal State Counsel from the State Ministry of Justice, Adekunle Adeniyi, said the pastor stole nine turkeys valued at N270,000 and a goat valued at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Thai trafficker was sentenced to a record 374 years in jail for child trafficking in a ruling that lawyers say will send a deterrent to other criminals. Yuttana Kodsap, 31, was found guilty of child trafficking for the purpose of pornography after he lured children aged 7-12 to play computer games…