LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during anti-government protests in 2017, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state television reported. Iran said on Tuesday its Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence of Zam, who was captured in 2019 after years of living in exile in France. His…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Liberian warlord has been ordered to stand trial in France for war crimes committed during the west African country’s bloody 1989-2003 conflict, judicial sources told AFP on Thursday. Kunti Kamara is accused of torture and complicity in acts of torture during the first of Liberia’s back-to-back civil wars, which together…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria may be on the verge of a second wave of COVID-19 infections, the health minister warned on Thursday, as another official said the country expects to roll out a vaccine by April next year. Osagie Ehanire, speaking at a news conference in the capital Abuja, said 1,843 cases were recorded last…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos socialite Dapo Ojora, 58, the brother-in-law of former Kwara State Governor and ex-Senate President, Bukola Saraki, has committed suicide. THEWILL gathered that Dapo, son of prominent businessman and socialite, Otunba Adekunle Ojora, reportedly shot himself on Friday night in Lagos. The circumstances surrounding the incident remained unclear as at the time…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- No fewer than 12 people were feared dead in a fatal road accident in Akungba Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State when a petrol tanker lost control due to brake failure and rammed into some vehicles on Friday evening. The tanker was said to have exploded…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dr Isidore Ojukwu Nwankwo, a former rector of Enugu Polytechnic has been sent to to prison for scamming his students. Justice N.I. Buba of the Federal High Court, Enugu handed over the sentence on Thursday. Nwankwo was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The stolen mace at the Ogun State House of Assembly has been recovered in Lagos State, the police said on Friday. According to a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, the mace was recovered around the Abule Ado area of Lagos. “The police operatives…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has stressed importance of society to show love and support to physically challenged persons, while calling on the government to run an all-inclusive governance and make policies that will help the physically challenged to live…