LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 29-year-old man in Saudi Arabia has been executed for a crime he committed when he was 14 years old, sparking backlash from international human rights organizations. Hassan Zaki al-Faraj was executed on Saturday, Oct. 17, according to a statement from Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior, published by the Saudi Press Agency…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia executed two Bangladeshi citizens it had accused of an “indecent act” inside a mosque in Mecca. The case has caused public anger in Bangladesh and has left its government scrambling for answers because it only learnt about the executions after the fact. According to the Saudi interior ministry, a man…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Notorious bandit kingpin, Ado Aleru, has reportedly killed seven of his own fighters in Zamfara State after accusing them of betrayal and carrying out unauthorised kidnappings. The executions occurred in Takulawa, Turba, Bamamu, and the Yamma forest axis, where Aleru allegedly confronted the fighters for staging kidnappings along the Gusau–Yankara highway without…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed an American citizen who had been convicted of killing his father. The Interior Ministry identified the executed man as Bishoy Sharif Naji Naseef and said he beat and then strangled his Egyptian father to death. It also said Naseef used narcotics, mutilated his father’s body after his…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Commander of the Islamic State of the West African Province(ISWAP), Abu Muhammed, has executed his immediate deputy, Abu Darda, for enabling military operation into their camp in Mukdolo and Bone villages which led to the killing of 41 fighters including Abu-Zahra Munzir. This is even as Troops of Joint Task Force…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Abductors of the Sole Administrator of the Ideato North Local Government Area of Imo State, Christopher Ohizu, have ended his life in the most brutal manner by beheading him three days after he was captured from his home in Arondizuogu and after allegedly collecting N6million as ransom. The former council boss, who…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran said Saturday it executed a former high-ranking defense ministry official and dual Iranian-British national, despite international warnings not to carry out the death sentence. The execution further escalated tensions with the West amid the nationwide anti-government protests shaking the Islamic Republic. The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, a close ally of…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former head of a Chinese state-owned asset management company was executed Friday on charges of taking bribes in an unusually severe penalty for a recent corruption case. Lai Xiaomin of China Huarong Asset Management Co., was among thousands of officials snared in a long-running anti-graft campaign led by President Xi Jinping….
