LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers for the family of ex-Burkina Faso leader Thomas Sankara on Thursday demanded former president Blaise Compaore be extradited after he received a life term in absentia over the revolutionary icon’s 1987 assassination. A military court on Wednesday sentenced Compaore — who seized power in a 1987 coup coinciding with Sankara’s death…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected Russian hackers have begun to target Nigerian websites, with Bet9ja falling as their first victim. This is coming after the United States said it secretly removed malware from computer networks around the world in recent weeks, in its bid to pre-empt Russian cyber attacks. The US said the move was necessary…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young man identified as Muima is set to walk down the aisle with his aged lover, Thereza against all odds. The 25-year-old, who is head over heels in love with the 85-year-old woman, said the way she treated him ignited his love for her. Thereza, who has eight children and 20…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Damilola Olakanmi, a Nigerian law student based in East London, The United Kingdom, has died after eating the cannabis sweet she bought via a messaging app on her phone. The UK Evening Standard reported that Olakanmi, 23, immediately fell ill after taking the sweet on March 29 and had to be rushed…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men have kidnapped an 83-year-old American nun in northern Burkina Faso, the bishop of the local diocese said on Tuesday. The bishop did not know the identity of the kidnappers. Militant groups, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State, have taken over large swathes of territory in Burkina Faso…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Arthur O Urso, from Brazil, hit headlines when he discussed his controversial marriage to nine women. A man who currently has nine wives has revealed his intention to marry two more wives, making it 11. The man it was gathered married nine wives at once to celebrate free love. According to him,…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Doctors in India were stunned after a baby was born with two heads, two hearts, and three arms. Twins born with two heads, but sharing one body, are known as dicephalic parapagus twins – an extremely unusual form of conjoining that occurs once in a million births. The mother -Shaheen Khan and her husband…