LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sympathisers thronged Alade Close, Ikeja, Lagos, on Tuesday after an early morning fire claimed the lives of a middle-aged businesswoman, her teenage maid and houseboy. The deceased lived in a two-bedroomed apartment on the top floor of a one-storeyed building on the close. PUNCH Metro learnt that the woman’s husband and their…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were burnt to death on Sunday in Abuochichie junction in Bekwarra LGA of Cross River State for allegedly stealing motorcycles and robbing people in the area. DAILY POST investigations revealed that the suspects allegedly specialized in stealing motorcycles, terrorizing and robbing the people in the area and its environs. An…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado-Ekiti has sentenced a certain Raji Babatunde, to death by hanging for stealing seven bottles of beer and one packet of Rothmans cigarette. Justice Cornelius Akintayo, in a judgement delivered on Wednesday, found Babatunde guilty of armed robbery for being in possession of axe and…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa State High Court (Yenagoa Division), has sentenced a 38-year-old vicious cult leader, Diepreye Sunday Olayo to death by hanging. Delivering his judgment on Thursday, Justice Emmanuel Ogola found him guilty for the murder of Being Ilebiri on September 6 2011 along Ebis Mechanic road, Amarata, Yenagoa. Olayo a member of…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced Police Sergeant Jilla Lannubo to death by hanging for extra-judicial killing. The policeman was arraigned for the extrajudicial killing of one Oruyegha Grand in the Agudama area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on May 13, 2017. Lannubo, a native of Bokos…
Airli LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alarmed passengers say they were terrified when one of the emergency exit doors fell off a plane as it landed in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Passengers took to social media to document their experiences aboard the Dana Airlines aircraft Wednesday. Ola Orekunrin, a doctor from Lagos, tweeted that the “exit door fell…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Nayai Aganaba, Bayels State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced to death by hanging of 30-year-old Victoria Gagariga for the killing of her husband, Henry Gagariga, on February 4, 2015 at the residence along Ebisam Road in Akenfa, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The deceased, a lawyer, and Victoria, a staff of the Bayelsa…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Fulani man has been apprehended in Ogun State after stabbing his tribesman to death during an argument today. .According to an eyewitness report, the suspected killer, Abubakar, stabbed the deceased 3 times in the stomach and back in Ilishan Remo. Abubakar, still stained with the blood of the deceased, was however…