LAGS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akwa Ibom State High Court, presided by Justice Edem Akpan, has sentenced 82-year-old Village Head of Efen Ibom in Ika Local Government Area of the State, Chief Essien Matthew Odiong, to death by hanging for murder. The monarch, married to 12 wives and has 60 children, was standing trial on four counts…
LAGOS AUGUST 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Adeniyi Jose, 45, from Akure, Ondo State, reportedly strangled his wife-of-eight years Chioma Gloria Ibeh, 39, from Imo state, over allegations of infidelity. The incident occurred in Suleja, Niger State on Monday, August 8, 2022. Mr Jose used a rope to strangle his wife. After killing her, he consumed a poisonous substance….
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The executives and members of Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN), a vanguard body of all journalists covering the security beat nationwide, on Friday mourned Late Inspector General of Police (Rtd.), Tafa Balogun, whose sad demise occurred on Thursday, August 4, 2022, at Reddington Hospital, Lagos. The late IGP, who was Nigeria’s…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-When a small plane made an emergency landing at Raleigh Durham International Airport on Friday, only one of its two pilots were on board. That’s because one of the pilots either jumped or fell to his death while the plane was trying to get to the ground safely after losing its right…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State High Court has sentenced Abdulmalik Tanko, a teacher who murdered his pupil, Hanifa Abubakar, last December to death Mr Tanko, the proprietor of Noble Kids College, was sentenced to death by hanging. Mr Tanko, alongside his accomplice, Hashim Isyaku and Fatima Musa, were arraigned before the Kano State High…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a Bureau De Change operator, Modibo Usman, has been thrown into mourning after he died from shock following an encounter with two officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority in the Surulere area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Modibo, who was hypertensive, was being conveyed by…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos journalist and member of Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN), Mr Frank Oshonogor and other passengers escaped death by a whisker when the commercial bus in which they were travelling to Obalende, Lagos lost control and crashed onto the pavement of the Third Mainland bridge and almost plunge into Lagos lagoon….
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Tuesday, sentenced a dismissed policeman, James Imhalu, to death by hanging for the murder of a commercial driver in 2015, over his refusal to pay him a N100 bribe. Justice Elsie Thompson while delivering her judgment said evidence before the court showed that the…