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…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Dominion Okoro, the housemaid who killed Madam Maria Igbinedion, mother of ex-governor of Edo state, Lucky Igbinedion, has been sentenced to death by hanging. Recall that the 85-year-old woman was murdered at her residence in GRA Benin City on December 2, 2021. Okoro said she had killed her employer because she wanted to steal her…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Friday, sentenced three persons to death for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti. The deceased was killed by the convicts along Benin-Ore-Sagamu Expressway in the Ore Odigbo Local Government Area of the state in June 2019, on her…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Candid Estate community, Araromi Ale in Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State was thrown into pandemonium this morning ( Tuesday ), when a man, Wasiu, allegedly stabbed dead his pregnant wife, Fathia, and attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach. The woman’s throat was slit with a…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential Candidate of Labour Party for the 2023 election, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed sadness over the death of former Chief of Staff of the defunct Biafran Army, General Alexander Madiebo. In his Condolence Message on Saturday to the Madiebo family, to the Igbo people and Nigeria in general, Obi stated that…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the Global Estate in the Lokogoma area of Abuja on Sunday as hundreds of okada riders took laws into their hands and set houses ablaze over the death of their colleagues. Two okada riders were reportedly knocked down and killed by a motorist, which sparked off serious rampage…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by the Lagos State Government. The judge sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on both counts….
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos Police Command on Wednesday prevented violence after a truck crushed a masquerade to death in Mushin. The incident occurred along Isolo road around 2:30pm. It was learnt the truck laden with plywood crushed the masquerade around the market axis. The masquerade was said to have died on the…