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 JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been cleared of all bribery charges brought against her by British prosecutors after a jury at a London court returned not-guilty verdicts on Wednesday. Mrs Alison-Madueke, who served as Nigeria’s petroleum minister between 2010 and 2015 under former President Goodluck Jonathan, was acquitted…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A London court, on Monday, granted bail to a former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who faces bribery charges filed against her by the United Kingdom (UK) government. District Judge Michael Snow granted her bail in terms and conditions including a curfew that ordered her to stay indoors between 11…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Former OPEC president Diezani Alison-Madueke has been charged with bribery offences relating to her time as Nigeria’s oil minister, the UK National Crime Agency said on Tuesday. Alison-Madueke, 63, has been on bail since first being arrested in London in October 2015. She will appear in court in the British capital on…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A ‘deeply religious’ asylum seeker deliberately starved her child to death during lockdown in a bid to stave off Covid, a court heard. Nigerian-born mother Olabisi Abubakar is accused of the manslaughter of her son, Taiwo, after the malnourished boy was found dead at the family home in Cardiff on June 29,…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical middleman have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide a kidney, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were convicted in a British…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, alongside his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, has been denied bail and remanded in custody by a United Kingdom court over allegation bordering on organ trafficking. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the UK Metropolitan Police formally charged Ekweremadu and his wife with conspiracy to facilitate the…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A UK court has ruled that Nigeria’s $1 billion suit against Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, oil giants, cannot go on because it does not have jurisdiction over the case. Justice Christopher Butcher gave the ruling at a virtual hearing on Friday, setting back the long standing trial on the Malabu oil…
