LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced tattooed pop star Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death for blasphemy. The 37-year-old singer has been in detention in Iran since December 2023 after being extradited from Turkey. Multiple Iranian media sources, including the Iranian newspapers Etemad and Jame Jam, reported on Sunday that…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Every day, on average, 14 Christians are violently killed in Nigeria. Persecution of religious minorities in the country is severe. The case of Sufi Muslim Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, pending before the Supreme Court of Nigeria, challenges the blasphemy law of Kano state, Nigeria, under which he was sentenced to death by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State Upper Sharia Court on Thursday sentenced an Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Kabara, to death by hanging after he was found guilty of the 4-count charge of blasphemy filed by the Kano State government. Mr Kabara, who is the son of the late Nasiru Kabara, a leader of the Qadariyya Islamic…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a prostitute, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting her corpse ablaze for keeping the Holy Quran in her room. PUNCH Metro gathered that one of the suspects patronised Saliu and after having sex with her, he reportedly paid…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total number of thirty-four lawyers defended Bilyaminu Aliyu and Aminu Hukunci, the suspected killers of Deborah Samuel, in court today. The defense team was led by Prof. Mansur Ibrahim. Deborah Samuel, a 200-Level Home Economics student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, was lynched by a mob on May 12…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After the killing of Deborah Samuel, a Christian, second-year student in the northern Nigeria city of Sokoto on Thursday for alleged blasphemy, fake news and disinformation have been widely shared on social media. A war of words erupted on Twitter and Facebook between some Muslims and Christians in the country, with each…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian atheist has been sentenced to 24 years in prison by a high court in the northern state of Kano after being convicted of blaspheming Islam. Mubarak Bala, the 37-year-old president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, pleaded guilty to all 18 charges and asked for leniency. He has been in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Teenager Omar Farouq who was acquitted after being sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by a Sharia Court in Kano for blasphemy has left Nigeria. Farouq was facing further threats to his life from some extremists in Kano, Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum said on its website. Farouq was in 2020 handed the…