LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 18-year-old Italian volleyball star has died after falling from the window of her hotel just hours after her team was knocked out of their Champions League semi-final clash. Julia Ituma was found dead on Thursday morning at her hotel in Istanbul, Turkey, following her team’s loss. Reports said Ituma had fallen…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Port Harcourt-bound Aero Contractors aircraft, on Wednesday morning, developed fault mid-air and had to return to Abuja for emergency landing. A passenger on the plane exclusively told LEADERSHIP that the aircraft took off at about 8:40am but few minutes into the flight, the pilot announced he had to return back to…
LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a domestic staff, Joseph Ogbu, to death by hanging for killing his employer, an 89-year-old woman, Ajoke John and her daughter, Oreoluwa in Lagos State. NAN reports that Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay held on Monday that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the 3-count charge bordering on murder…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A family of five, including three school children, Thursday, escaped gunshot by the whisker as officers of Nigeria Customs Service went on the rampage early in the morning in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The school children were being conveyed to school by their mother simply identified as Mrs Obaji, when the…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A retired boxing coach, Scott Eguabor, has punched his brother-in-law, Sunday Okoro, to death in Benin, the Edo State capital. The incident happened when the ex-boxer was attempting to resolve a marital problem between his younger sister, a judoka, and her husband. Eguabor is in charge of boxing in the state sports…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police command has arrested a 24-year- old security guard over the death of a domestic staff in Lekki ,Lagos . The suspect, Barnabas Job and 26-year old housemaid, Miss Tereza Ekibi ,were working in the same house before Ekibi was hacked with a cutlass. The said they have arrested…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 37-year-old man, identified as Artur B., hacked his 100-year-old grandmother, Amalie G., to death using an axe. The incident happened on Monday in Hamburg, Germany, according to a Daily Mail report on Wednesday. Chief Public Prosecutor Liddy Oechtering told a local news platform, “According to the preliminary autopsy result, it can…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hell was let loose along Lasu- Igando road today after a bus conductor murdered a passenger over an old N500 notes argument, iwitnesslive.com can exclusively report. The passenger, named Michael was heading toward Lasu Ojo road on assignment when he met his untimely death following a heated argument with the bus conductor…