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…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Justice Alexander Owoeye of the Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced one Olukeye Adedayo to 76 years in prison for engaging in fraudulent activities, impersonation and child pornography. Adedayo was arraigned in 2024 on an 18-count charge by the Lagos Zonal Directorate 2 of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former engineer at a Chinese research institute has been sentenced to death for selling classified material to foreign spy agencies, Chinese authorities said. After he resigned from the institute, the researcher, identified by his surname Liu, came up with a “carefully designed” plan to sell intelligence to foreign agencies, according to…
