LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-English football chiefs have been criticised for postponing all matches this weekend following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, with the decision labelled a “missed opportunity” to pay tribute to the nation’s longest-serving monarch. After the Queen died aged 96 on Thursday, the Premier League opted to cancel this weekend’s fixtures in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-People grieved in the crowds outside Buckingham Palace when officials carried a notice confirming the Queen Elizabeth II’s death to the gates of her London home. Thousands gathered in the pouring rain to mark their respects for the late monarch, who died Thursday at age 96. Royal superfan John Loughrey, 67, wept…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Canadian battle rapper Pat Stay was fatally stabbed in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was 36. Local police said the incident happened in downtown Halifax early Sunday. Stay was found with stab wounds and was taken to a hospital where he later died. His death has been ruled a homicide and is being…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five persons, including a couple and their daughter died in a an accident in Enugu Agidi, along Enugu-Awka expressway in Anambra State. The crash, which occurred around 7.20pm on Sunday, involved a Red Truck and a black Lexus RX330 Jeep with five persons on board. The Nation gathered that the truck driver,…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Court of Appeal sitting in Kano, Wednesday, ordered a retrial of the death sentence against a singer who was accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. The singer, Aminu Yahaya-Sharif, 24, a resident of Sharifai in the Kano metropolis, was accused of committing blasphemy against the prophet of Islam in a…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Police Officer, identified as Officer Tony has died after a tree fell on him in a bush at Mpasaaso No.2 in the Ahafo Ano South West of the Ashanti Region. Narrating the sad incident on Omanbapa morning show on Silver FM in Kumasi hosted by Nana Kwabena Ampratwum today, August 15,…
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….