LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kwara State High Court has sentenced the five suspects involved in the Offa robbery case to death by hanging. This was pronounced by the court on Thursday afternoon after it was satisfied that the prosecution had successfully proved its case against the defendants. The defendants were convicted by Justice Haleema Salman…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fatal car crash at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge toll gate in Lagos has resulted in the death of three young individuals and ignited controversy over the handling of the incident by the police. The accident, which occurred around 1:00 am on Monday, involved two cars carrying approximately eight people. A social…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A military court in Congo handed down death sentences Friday to 37 people, including three Americans, after convicting them on charges of participating in a coup attempt. The defendants, most of them Congolese but also including a Briton, Belgian and Canadian, have five days to appeal the verdict on charges that include…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck at Warrake Road in Owan East Local Government area of Edo State on Thursday as the campaign convoy of the candidate of All Progressives Congress for the September 21 governorship election in the state, Senator Monday Okpebholo, rammed into a Toyota Camry car, crushing five of the occupants to death….
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A COUPLE jumped to their deaths while clutching their baby in a desperate attempt to escape their burning flat. The pair jumped from the seventh-floor apartment in Brazil with their two-month-old son in front of horrified onlookers. Luiz Evaldo Lima, Graciane Rosa de Oliveira, and baby Léo Oliveira de Lima died on…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A policeman identified as Inspector Collins Wilson has reportedly killed three individuals in an attempt to cover up a theft committed by his girlfriend, known only as Esther. The incident occurred on Monday, August 26th, when Esther was accused of stealing a phone from a tricycle driver who had been transporting her….
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A contract staffer with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Asher Christopher, has reportedly died while on duty. It was alleged that the 23-year-old Christopher had fell off from the five-storey building and died while carrying out his duty on Tuesday. However, the family of the victim has called for a…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet to be identified man has reportedly stabbed his former wife to death in Igede-Ekiti, Ekiti State. The woman, according to report, had two children for the man, before leaving him and travelling out of Igede-Ekiti. It was gathered that the woman came to Igede-Ekiti for a function and the man…