LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Paris court on Thursday sentenced former French President Nicolas Sarkozy to five years in prison after finding him guilty of criminal conspiracy in an alleged scheme to finance his 2007 campaign with funds from Libya. The historic ruling made Sarkozy the first former president of modern France sentenced to actual…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia requested asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, the same day she and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, were sentenced to 15 years in prison on money laundering charges. The embassy informed Peru that Heredia had arrived Tuesday morning, according to a statement…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An inmate killed his wife as she visited him in a prison in eastern Germany, prosecutors said on Friday. The Thursday incident occurred at the Burg prison in Magdeburg, west of Berlin. The 37-year-old prisoner was reportedly alone with his 35-year-old wife in a room set up for visitors of long-term inmates….
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge has sentenced US President-elect Donald Trump to an “unconditional discharge,” bringing to an end the first criminal trial of a former US president. The sentence in the hush-money payment case means the incoming president has been spared any penalty, including jail time or a fine, but he will still take…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four drug kingpins arrested in connection with the historic seizure of 2,139.55 kilograms of cocaine at an Ikorodu residential estate in 2022 have been convicted by a Federal High Court, Lagos, presided over by Justice Yellim Bogoro who sentenced them to various jail terms totalling twenty-eight (28) years with hard labour. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human rights activist, Dele Farotimi said he has never lied against anyone in his quest for a better Nigeria. He said this on Tuesday after his release from a correctional centre in Ekiti State upon meeting his bail conditions. Farotimi is being prosecuted by the police for allegedly defaming senior lawyer, Afe…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A court in the United States has sentenced Babatunde Ayeni to 10 years’ imprisonment. Peoples Gazette reports that the court filings from the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, which it obtained, showed that the court ordered Ayeni to pay approximately $20 million to victims of his scam. According…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Chinese soccer star and coach of the country’s national men’s team has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for corruption, state media reported on Friday. Li Tie, 47, who played for the English Premier League Everton alongside Wayne Rooney in the early 2000s, is the biggest name to fall…