Turkish Muslim Televangelist ‘Sex Cult’ Leader Sentenced To 1,000 Years In Prison

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…

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Pastor Sentenced To Life Imprisonment Over ‘Disappearance’ Of A Year-Old Boy

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…

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Atletico Madrid Striker Costa Sentenced For Six-Month Imprisonment Over Tax Fraud

LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Atletico Madrid’s Diego Costa has pleaded guilty to defrauding the Spanish state of more than €1 million (£813,000/$1,127,000) after failing to declare payments of over €5m earned from his 2014 move to Chelsea. The striker was sentenced to six months in prison on Thursday, but Spanish law states that non-violent crimes with…

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Iran Sentences Couple To Death For Laundering $200m

LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A special anti-corruption court in Iran has sentenced a couple to death on money laundering and other charges, the judiciary said Tuesday. The couple — Najva Lasheidaei and her husband Vahid Behzadi — are said to have smuggled hard currency and laundered $200 million, said judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili. Authorities also confiscated…

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Ten Cameroon Separatist Leaders Sentenced To Life In Prison

LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Cameroonian court handed life sentences to 10 separatist leaders on Tuesday after finding them guilty of charges including terrorism in their fight to break away from the Francophone-dominated central government, their lawyers said. They included Julius Ayuk Tabe, a key figure in the Anglophone movement in western Cameroon, whose followers have…

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