LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Hauwa Yilwa of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced two women arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS) for their involvement in terrorism to 40 years in prison. The convicted women — identified as one Safiya Salihu and one Halima Abdullahi — are said to be the mother and…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Maiduguri-based businessman, Umar Bashir, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment without option of fine for terrorism financing. The convict who claimed to be a major dealer in oil perfumes and also a Point Of Sales, POS, operator, was found guilty of using his account number 2213629628 with the United Bank…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A New Jersey man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution after pleading guilty to scamming several victims out of hundreds of thousands of dollars — including a man who sent him more than $400,000, believing the money…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has handed down a heavy prison sentence to a female terrorism convict, locking her away for the next two decades. Halima Haliru Umar will spend 20 years behind bars following her conviction for illegally carrying war-grade ammunition and attempting to aid terrorist activities in the…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos State has sentenced Remilekun Temitope Balogun-Okedeyi to one-year imprisonment for fogery after she was found guilty of submitting forged employment records and bank statement in a bid to secure a United Kingdom visa. This was disclosed by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-A court in Finland has sentenced a controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement to six years in prison after convicting him of terrorism-related offences. Simon Ekpa, a Finnish citizen of Nigerian origin, “attempted to promote the independence of the so-called Biafra region in south-eastern Nigeria by illegal means”, according to…
By Emmanuel Udom The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja Zonal Directorate has secured the conviction and sentence of one Jonathan Wallang before Justice Hamza Muazu of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court sitting in Maitama Abuja, for defrauding the Cooperative Society of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas, NLNG, the sum of…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A Nigerian man, Abiola Quadri, has been sentenced to over 11 years in federal prison in the United States for orchestrating a $1.3 million fraud scheme involving stolen identities to claim COVID-19 pandemic unemployment and disability benefits. The 43-year-old, a permanent resident of Pasadena, California, used the illicit funds to construct…
