LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de facto coup this year, was convicted on two charges Monday and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly cut in half — in proceedings widely criticized as a further effort by the country’s military rulers to roll…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Billionaire kidnap kingpin , Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike known as Evans has been sentenced to death by a Lagos High Court on Thursday. At the sentencing by an Igbosere High Court in Lagos, Evans who was charged with kidnapping had pleaded not guilty. He was also charged for attempt to kidnap the chairman of…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three soldiers behind a failed coup in Gabon in 2019 have been sentenced to 15 years’ prison, the prosecutor told AFP on Thursday. The three, including Lieutenant Kelly Ondo Obiang who was a member of the elite Republican Guard, had gone on state television on January 7, 2019, calling for a “public…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court in Apo, Abuja, has sentenced a former federal lawmaker, Farouk Lawan, to seven years imprisonment for taking bribes while serving as the chairman of the defunct House of Representatives ad-hoc committee investigating the fraud around fuel subsidy regime in 2012. Angela Otaluka, the trial judge,…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-George Weah Jr, the son of the Liberian president George Weah, has been handed a six-month suspended sentence for disturbing the peace and noise pollution at his home just outside Paris. “This is a first warning but there won’t be a second,” said Judge Pascal Humbert-Massa at Versailles criminal court. Weah’s neighbours took him…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerians who were accused of kidnapping and eventually killing four girls in Takoradi, Ghana, were on Friday afternoon sentenced to death by a court in the country after they were found guilty of murder. The two Nigerians, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, were sentenced after they were found guilty of…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Turkish court has sentenced the leader of an evangelical sex cult to one thousand years in prison for a litany of sexual offences and fraud. Adnan Oktar, who promoted creationism on his conservative Islamic TV channel, was known for surrounding himself with scantily dressed women whom he called his “kittens” before…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ondo State High Court has sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Pastor Samuel Babatunde, also known as Alfa Babatunde, to life imprisonment over the “disappearance” of a one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole, in his church. The little boy was abducted by an unknown person during the church service at the children…