LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four staff members of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a member of the NYSC and a three-year-old girl on Saturday died in an accident along Ajaokuta–Lokoja Road. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the victims were returning in the evening from Ayingba, Kogi, where they attended the wedding ceremony…
LAGOS OBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Anambra State and the PDP Vice Presidential candidate, Mr. Peter Obi, described the death of Anenih as a painful loss not just to the Anenih’s immediate family and political associates, but to the nation at large. Describing Chief Anenih as a cornucopia of politics, Obi said that experiences of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Donald Trump joined European leaders on Saturday in pushing Saudi Arabia for more answers about Jamal Khashoggi after Riyadh changed its story and acknowledged that the journalist died more than two weeks ago at its consulate in Istanbul. Saudi Arabia said early on Saturday that Khashoggi, a critic of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa state High Court 7 sitting in Yenagoa on Friday sentenced Cpl. Vincent Olama to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing. In his judgment, Justice E Eradiri, said Olama was found guilty of killing of a 17 -year-old, Innocent Kokorifa, in Okaka, Yenagoa, on Aug. 18, 2016. The Judge said the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Reverend (Dr) Moses Iloh, the General Overseer of Soul Winning Chapel. President Buhari extends his heartfelt condolences to Rev Iloh’s family, friends, associates and the Christian community in Nigeria, who mourn the demise of an exceptional statesman and religious leader….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Egyptian court on Saturday issued its final verdict upholding death sentences against 75 Muslim Brotherhood members and supporters — including journalists — for their participation in protests following the 2013 ouster of democratically elected President Mohamed Morsy. The mass trial has been widely condemned by human rights organizations, with Amnesty International…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station to report that his son had…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for five human rights activists, including a female rights defender, rights groups have said. Israa al-Ghomgham, a Shia activist arrested with her husband in 2015, will be tried in the country’s terrorism tribunal even though charges she faces are only related to peaceful activism, Human…
