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…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced a 42-year-old prince, Ademola Omoniyi, to death by hanging for killing the traditional ruler of his community. Omoniyi was arraigned on one count of murder contrary to Section 316 and punishable under Section 319 of the Criminal Code, Cap. C16, Laws of…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck at Claratian University of Nigeria, Nekede, in Owerri, Imo State when a seminarian, Suel Ambrose, slumped and died while acting a drama on Good Friday. The incident caused panic and pandemonium among the seminarians and passersby as frantic efforts to revive the deceased failed. Some students interviewed on Saturday morning…