LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 20 years for murdering his Nigerian roommate in a “violent and unprovoked attack” in Norwich, United Kingdom. In a report by BBC, sighted by PUNCH Online on Tuesday, Benjamin Katabana was convicted of murdering 33-year-old Uchenna Okirie,…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war. Assad fled from Damascus to Moscow with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his family’s five-decade grip…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Musa Kakaki of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced fugitive drug kingpin, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, and former international footballer, Segun George Hunkarin, to a combined 24 years’ imprisonment for unlawfully importing 7.050 kilogrammes of cocaine into Nigeria. Chinedu was first arraigned in September 2015 on a one-count…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Marius Borg Høiby, the 29-year-old son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit, has been found guilty of two counts of rape and given four years in prison. The three judges in courtroom 250 at Oslo District Court cleared him of two other counts of rape, but found him guilty of many of the…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Wednesday sentenced former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to 75 years’ imprisonment in absentia over a N33.8bn money laundering and fraud case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The court convicted Mamman on all 12 counts filed against him by the…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Binta Fatima Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has sentenced a major food supplier to the Boko Haram terrorists in Borno State, Hamatu Modu to 40 years imprisonment for his involvement in terrorism activities. Modu, who confessed in the open court to supplying food items and information to terrorists,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chinese court has sentenced to death 11 members of a notorious family that ran scam centres in Myanmar, according to Chinese state media. Dozens of members of the Ming family were found guilty of conducting criminal activities, with many receiving lengthy jail sentences. The Ming family worked for one of the…
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…
