LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran arrested 17 suspects and sentenced some to death after dismantling a CIA spy ring, an official said Monday, as tensions soar between the Islamic republic and arch-enemy the United States. Security agencies “successfully dismantled a (CIA) spy network,” the head of counter-intelligence at the Iranian intelligence ministry, whose identity was not…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- An Indian mother and daughter were hacked to death by three men over allegations of witchcraft in the country’s remote tribal-dominated east, police said Saturday. The 50-year-old woman and her young daughter were beaten by their neighbours before being attacked with knives on Wednesday night in West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-All Progressives Congress National Stalwart, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has commiserated with the Managing Director of Thisday, Mr. Eniola Bello, over the death of his wife, Mrs. Helen Eniola-Bello. Mrs. Eniola-bello, 50, died on Tuesday, June 4 at at the New Cross Hospital, Wolverhampton, United Kingdom after a three-year battle with breast cancer….
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Stella Gilbert, a 36 year old lady resident in Ajegunle wailed uncontrollably on Tuesday few minutes after Justice Raliat Adebiyi pronounced death sentence on her for stabbing a fellow housewife, Mrs Stella Godwin to death during a fracas. The deceased is mother of three. She knelt down on the floor, wailing, “Mummy…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian mother, Mrs. Oluremi Adeleye, whose actions led to the death of an 8-month-old baby in Maryland, United States, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Adeleye, 73, broke down crying in court as she spoke through an interpreter, saying, “It was a mistake. I did not want to kill…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A container yesterday fell on a motor boy at the Itire axis of Oshodi – Mile 2 Expressway, Lagos, crushing him to death. The truck with registration number, KTU 141 XK carrying a 20feet container was conveying a container and had a lone accident at Iyana – Itire and the container fell…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has secured the release of a Nigerian student, Zainab Habibu Aliyu, who was detained in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of drug trafficking. This was disclosed by President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, in a tweet on Tuesday. According to Ahmad, “The Federal Government has secured…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An inmate of the Nigerian Prisons Service, Cross River State Command, has died after being delivered of a twin girl and boy. ASP Effanga Etim, Public Relations Officer of Afokang Command, confirmed the incident, stating that the inmate died of complications after a Caesarean section to deliver the twins. The inmate was…