LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)A South Korean appellate court judge who presided over a high-profile case involving former first lady Kim Keon-hee was found dead early Wednesday morning, police said. Shin Jong-oh, who had overturned a lower court’s not guilty verdict and imposed a harsher sentence on Kim, was discovered with severe injuries in a…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A South Korean appeals court on Wednesday sentenced ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol to seven years in prison for resisting arrest and bypassing a legitimate Cabinet meeting before his brief imposition of martial law in December 2024. The conviction for obstruction of justice and other charges comes on top of a…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal high court in Abuja has sentenced Anamekwe Nwabuoku, former acting accountant-general of the federation, to 72 years imprisonment for money laundering. Delivering judgment on Monday, James Omotosho, presiding judge, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had proved its case against Nwabuoku. Nwabuoku was arraigned on a nine-count amended…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced a dismissed soldier with the Nigerian Army, 6 Battalion, Ibagwa in Abak, Corporal Stephen Iweh, to death by hanging for the murder of a 42-year-old man, Christopher Enobong Jimmy. The incident occurred on 23rd May, 2021 along the East-West Road in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former law student who was sentenced to 25 years in jail in Dubai for drug dealing told a fellow inmate she only took “a single line of cocaine” at a party. Mia O’Brien was arrested in October last year after police found 50g of cocaine in a flat where she was…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has convicted and sentenced to death, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, for the murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwola. In a judgment that lasted over two and half hours, Justice Serifat Sonaike held that the prosecution, the…
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 MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A top leader of Mexico’s violent Jalisco New Generation cartel was sentenced to life in US prison Friday for his bloody role in creating one of the world’s most powerful drug syndicates. Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, 35, is the son of Mexico’s most-wanted man — Jalisco New Generation leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who…