LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Libyan authorities have released Saadi Gaddafi, a son of the former leader Muammar Gaddafi who was ousted and killed during a 2011 uprising, a Libyan official source and a unity government source said on Sunday. Saadi Gaddafi fled for Niger during the NATO-backed uprising, but was extradited to Libya in 2014 and…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nduka Obaigbena the founding Chairman and Editor-in-Chief of THISDAY Media, ARISE News Channel and ARISE Magazine, has been disqualified from serving as a director of a company in the United Kingdom for seven years. The application for disqualification was made under Section 6 of the Company Directors Disqualification Act 1986 and arose…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Emeka Isiagor of the Federal High Court sitting in Umuahia, Abia State has convicted and sentenced a fake Travel Agent: Iheanacho Chikwendu, to seven years imprisonment for defrauding her victims the sum of N9,000,000.00( Nine Million Naira only). He was jailed on March 19, 2021 after a four- year trial in…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) has said that the ongoing enrollment for the National Identification Number (NIN) is free across the country. In a tweet on Thursday, NIMC warned that those who extort applicants risk a seven-year jail term if found guilty of the offence. While citing Sections 14, 20 and…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Robert Farkas, the founding father of a cryptocurrency agency Centra Tech that raised greater than $25 million from its preliminary coin providing rip-off, pled responsible in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Tuesday. The official assertion accused Farkas of conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud and ordered a sentence between 70…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Nigerian stowaways arrested in the UK in 2018 December have been jailed for a total of seven years. While on the ship, they hurled faeces at elite SBS sailors and vowed to infect them with HIV during a tense stand-off in the Thames Estuary. The stowaways also threatened to kill crew…
d LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Lagos has sentenced a former Acting Director-General of NIMASA, Calistus Obi, to seven years imprisonment for N136 million fraud. Justice Mojisola Olatoregun had last month convicted Mr Obi of fraud. Mr Obi was charged with N136 million fraud by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)….