LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria, on Tuesday, announced 31 deaths from COVID-19 as the caseload shot up to 17,148. The death toll was the highest number ever announced, since the reckoning began in late February. Twenty-five of the deaths occurred in Lagos, the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said. It said the figure covered the…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for killing a former Niger Delta militant leader, Soboma George and a groundnut seller, Joy John-Ejims. The court ruled that Dougbra Ogbe, Emmanuel Gladstone and Bere Matthew, were guilty of conspiracy and murder and…
No fewer than 315 patients have died of coronavirus-related complications in Nigeria, The PUNCH reports. This is as the country recorded 348 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesday. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, which made this known, noted that a total of 11,166 cases of COVID-19 has been recorded in the country. NCDC said,…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Legendary Reggae star, Majekodunmi Fasheke, popularly known as Majek Fashek died in New York on June 1. It has now been revealed that he died after battling cancer for almost a year, according to Vanguard. The news of his death was announced by artiste manager Joy Tongo. Majek Fashek’s manager, Uzoma Day…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over property in Lagos. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in a virtual hearing. Justice Taiwo held that though the prosecution had presented circumstantial evidence…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria has recorded 553 new coronavirus infections, bringing the total cases close to 10,000, The PUNCH reports. This was stated by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday night. The Centre noted that 2,856 patients have been discharged upon recovery while 273 associated deaths have been recorded. “On the 30th of May…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five children said to have belonged to the the same parents were watched being hacked to death by a man suspected to be insane at Oja Odan a boundary town between Lagos and Ogun States. As soon as he committed the dastardly act, onlookers pounced on him and gave him instant jugdement….
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Muslim Media Practitioners of Nigeria (MMPN) has mourned the death of the Saturday Editor, the New Telegraph newspaper, Mr. Abdulwaheed Bakare. Late Bakare, it was learnt, died Sunday after a brief illness. MMPN National President, Abdur-Rahman Balogun in a statement issued late Sunday condoled with Mr. Bakare’s immediate family, describing the…