LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced on Monday ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi to four years in jail on several charges including possession of unlicensed walkie-talkies, a source familiar with the proceedings said. The court handed down a two-year sentence to Suu Kyi for breaching the export-import law by possessing the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State High Court in Kano, on Monday, convicted three smugglers of 1,144 Automated Card Machine (ATM) cards. A statement by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said the judge, Tanimu Shehu, sentenced them to six months’ imprisonment with an option N50,000 each. The commission’s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, who signed…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Intermediate People’s Court in the eastern city of Wenzhou on Tuesday jailed 17 people for smuggling pangolin scales into China. The members of the gang were convicted of importing 23 tonnes of scales from pangolins — the world’s most trafficked mammal — worth 180 million yuan ($28 million) from Nigeria between…