LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian couple has allegedly tortured their daughter to death in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters has learnt. The couple, Yakubu Isa Arisko, 36, and Veronica Linus, 34, reportedly conspired and murdered their daughter, Eunice Yakubu, whom they accused of practising witchcraft. They reportedly tied the 9-year-old with a rope and left her in…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United Kingdom-based Nigerian man, Olubunmi Abodunde, has beaten his wife, Taiwo, to death with their son’s skateboard, Daily Mail reports. The couple, who had three children, arrived in the UK from Nigeria in 2022 and always clashed over alleged affairs and arguments about bills. According to the news platform, 48-year-old Abodunde had…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fully loaded 40fts Mack articulated truck yesterday fell on a Nissan Car (ABJ 692 BG) and instantly killed a woman at the rear of the car while the car driver survived unhurt with support by the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) Officials by N.N.P.C inward Estate, Alapere, Lagos. The Director,…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s Southeast Asia’s biggest ever fraud, amounting to $12.5 billion and embroiling some of Vietnam’s top bankers and officials. And on Thursday, a Ho Chi Minh City court reached its verdict: a death sentence for Truong My Lan, a highflying 67-year-old businesswoman who began life hawking cosmetics from a market stall in…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A truck carrying mangoes rammed into a mosque in Barade House, opposite the Old Licencing Office in Kontagora, Niger State, in the early hours of Friday. The driver of the truck was said to have taken off from Bida, Niger State, and was heading to Sokoto with four passengers when he dozed…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female staff member of the University of Ilesa in Osun State, whose name could not be immediately ascertained, on Wednesday, died as a container filled with cashew nuts being conveyed by a truck fell on her car. The accident, which happened along Ilesa/Ibodi Expressway, a few meters away from the university’s…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An eyewitness has narrated how divine intervention saved the lives of some 70 passengers onboard a long TATA bus on the ever busy Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos this Good Friday morning. In a brief narrative under a video that is now going viral, the eyewitness stated how an iron bar forced…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State High Court sitting has sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, to death by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. The Chinese, living in Railway Quarters, Kano, was convicted on a one count charge of culpable homicide on Tuesday. Delivering judgment, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji…
