LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Americans convicted for their role in a failed coup in Democratic Republic of Congo last year have had their death sentences commuted to life imprisonment, the presidency has said. They were among 37 people sentenced to death last September by a military court. The three were accused of leading an attack…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yahaya Shariff-Aminu, who was sentenced to death for blaspheming Prophet Mohammed, has filed a notice of appeal. Shariff-Aminu was sentenced to death by an Upper Sharia Court on August 10, 2020. He was given 30 days to file an appeal and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje expressed readiness to sign his death warrant once…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian Army authorities have arrested an officer and nine soldiers in connection with the killing of five officers of the IGP Intelligence Response Team (IRT), on August 6, in Taraba State Daily Sun, can authoritatively report. This is just as our correspondent gathered that the arrested officers risk death sentence…
