LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Journalists under the aegis of Congress of Nigerian Maritime Media Practitioners (CONMMEP) mourn the death of the President of Maritime Journalists Association of Nigeria (MAJAN) Mr. Ray Ugochukwu. Ray Ugochukwu died on Thursday after a brief illness. CONMEP in a statement signed by its President, Alhaji. Tunde Umar-Daniah said, “We mourn the…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Osun State High Court has found the popular hotel owner, Dr Ramon Adedoyin guilty in the murder case of Timothy Adegoke, a former master’s degree student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, whose death occurred between November 5 and 7, 2021, at Hilton Honours Hotel, Ile-Ife. The Osun Chief Judge, Adepele…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck during the weekend in Odigbo Local Government Area of Ondo State following the killing of an 80-year-old grandmother. The body of the octogenarian was found inside her farm in the Costain axis of the local government following suspicion that she had been raped before her assailants murdered her. Before her…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lamidi Apapa, the factional National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), has expressed his gratitude to God for saving his life after being mobbed at the Court of Appeal in Abuja. The incident occurred during the proceedings of the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) on Wednesday. In a video that circulated earlier,…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery. The defendants, Omotayo Deji (23), Chidiebere Ifeanyin (25) and Bolaji Usman (28), were arraigned before Justice Bamidele Omotoso on January 21, 2020, on four-count charge bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery….
LAGOS MMAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 16-year-old boy, Mustapha Sunusi, was on Friday evening clubbed to death by his father, Abdulwahab Sunusi, for allegedly stealing one measure (mudu) of millet in Tanagar village in Warawa LGA of Kano State. A witness said, “Abdulwahab went overboard in an attempt to instill discipline on his 16-year-old son. He lost…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A total of 143 passengers yesterday escaped death when a Max Air aircraft yesterday crash-landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA) in Abuja, after its tyre reportedly burst into flames. The management of Max Air disclosed that all the 143 passengers and an infant on board the aircraft with registration No:…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of State for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations in Uganda, Colonel Charles Okello Engola, was on Tuesday shot dead by one of his military bodyguards as he was entering his vehicle to go to work. The Uganda police, while sharing preliminary information about the killing of the minister, said the…