LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Qatar has sentenced to death eight Indian former naval officers, reportedly for spying for Israel. The verdict comes as Doha plays a crucial mediation role in delicate talks between Israel and Hamas to free civilian hostages held in Gaza. India’s government said that “all legal options were being explored” after expressing “deep…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz had to abandon his plane and seek safety on Wednesday 18 October when he received an alert about a missile attack at Tel Aviv Airport shortly before his departure. Reports indicate that passengers at the airport were instructed to lie down on the runway. Journalists present also had…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Chalya Silas, was stabbed to death by yet-to-be-identified assailants suspected to be phone snatchers in Kaduna State. Details of the incident are still sketchy at the time of filing this report, but it was gathered that the deceased was a graduate of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos High Court has sentenced a police officer, Darambi Vandi, to death by hanging for shooting dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on the last Christmas Day. Justice Harrison sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square annex division of the Lagos state High Court said his defence…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 10-year-old pupil identified simply as Rofiat lost her life after a car knocked her down on the premises of her school, Isiu Grammar School, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered on Wednesday that the incident occurred on Friday, September 29. Rofiat was said to have joined her…
LAGOS OCTONER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Media personality, Daddy Freeze, and other IG users have reacted after a Port Harcourt-based pastor identified as Fabian Nna raised a man from death. The photos which are currently making rounds online capture the moment the man was brought in a casket, lifeless and the moment the pastor commenced intense prayers which…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Thailand have charged a man with beating to death his two-year-old daughter and his two infant sons. They suspect Songsak Songsaeng also killed two other infant sons from a previous marriage. The charges follow the discovery last week of the body of a two-year-old girl buried beneath a kitchen floor….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have arrested a 40-year-old man, Adetomiwa Adeyinka, at Ahmadiyya Ijaiye, Ojokoro area of Lagos, for allegedly strangling his girlfriend who visited him in his house and sleeping with her corpse. Adeyinka, on September 12, went to the police, and lied that the lady, 36-year-old Chinonso Okomadu, who he referred…