LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The daughter of Samuel Eto’o is currently pushing for the imprisonment of the former footballer having allegedly neglected his duties as a father. Samuel Eto’o is embroiled in a legal battle against his daughter, Erika do Rosario Nieves. The 22-year-old Erika was judicially recognized in February 2022 as the daughter of the…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have killed a businessman identified as Emeka Onyeji and kidnapped his teenage daughter, Precious, in Gusau, Zamfara State. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded Emeka’s residence in the Bayan NTA area of Gusau on Tuesday night, June 13, 2023, stabbed him to death with a sword and whisked away…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A herbalist, Mr. Sunday Ezeh, was on Tuesday arrested for maltreating and allegedly attempting to use her daughter for ritual purposes in Anambra State. The Public Relations Officer of the Anambra State Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Welfare, Chidinma Ikeanyionwu, made this known in a statement issued in Awka, the State…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has sentenced the General Overseer, Alter of Solution and Healing Assembly in Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, Pastor Chidiebere Okoroafor to death for killing three persons, including his choir mistress, who he impregnated. Trial judge, Justice S. Benson in his judgment…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a domestic staff, Joseph Ogbu, to death by hanging for killing his employer, an 89-year-old woman, Ajoke John and her daughter, Oreoluwa in Lagos State. NAN reports that Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay held on Monday that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the 3-count charge bordering on murder…
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 FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian market trader allegedly trafficked to London has told a jury he was shocked when a doctor revealed he was to have a kidney transplant. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he thought he was coming to the UK for work. At the Old Bailey, Nigerian politician…
By Fadaka Louis LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The social scene has been abuzz by the news of patricide (a son killing his father) that occurred on the night of the 20th December, 2022, at their residence in Ayobo, a border town between Ogun and Lagos State. Different theories (mostly untrue) as to what led up to…