LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Catholic priest, Father John Gbakaan, who is the Dean of the newly created Lapai Deanery in Niger State, has been killed by yet-to-be-identified gunmen. Father John, who was also in charge of St. Anthony’s Parish Gulu in Lapai local government area of the state, was killed along the Lambata-Lapai road. A close…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-China condemned the former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co. to death on charges of malfeasance, one of the most severe sentences to stem from President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive. Lai Xiaomin, who was chairman of Huarong before he came under investigation in 2018, was sentenced to death for taking bribes…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Moyo Thomas, the lady in the sex scandal story involving the Managing Director of First City Monument Bank, Nuhu Adams, has spoken on the incident that was alleged to have led to the death of her husband, Tunde Thomas. Moyo’s response, authored by her family, however, did not state the involvement of…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested in northern Mexico for allegedly beating to death his three sons in order to get back at the children’s mother, prosecutors said Sunday. The prosecutors’ office in the northern state of Sonora said Sunday the boys were aged 3, 7 and 8. The deaths occurred in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As 2020 draws to a close, it is time to remember some of the iconic figures on the African continent who died this year. Here is a look back at 10 of those to whom we have said farewell from the worlds of football, science, music, business, medicine, politics, activism and the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Online publishers under the aegis of the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) have bemoaned the death of their member, Mr Ben Bright-Mkpuma, publisher of Watchdog Reporters. Bright-Mkpuma, aged 52, died on Christmas Day in his sleep after battling kidney failure for five years. He was certified dead at Zenith Medical Centre,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, who hacked her two children to death in Kano has pleaded not guilty before a magistrate court. Recall that Hauwa, a health worker, killed her two children, Irfan Ibrahim, 6 and Zuhura Ibrahim, 3, and injured a niece, Aisha Sadiq, 10, at Diso Quarters in Gwale Local…
LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some police officers posted to Noyo Police Station in Ikwo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State on Monday, escaped death as suspected hoodlums unleashed an attack on them and set the station and patrol van ablaze. According to the DPO of the area, Mr Danjuma Dantata, the hoodlums also broke into the…