LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As President Donald Trump’s days in the White House wane, his administration is racing through a string of federal executions. Five executions are scheduled before President-elect Joe Biden’s 20 January inauguration – breaking with an 130-year-old precedent of pausing executions amid a presidential transition. And if all five take place, Mr Trump…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Council for Shari’ah in Nigeria has urged Kano state government to execute the court judgement that found Yahaya Sharif-Aminu, a singer, guilty of blasphemy, despite public outcry. According to NAN, in a statement by Nafi’u Baba-Ahmad, its secretary-general, in Kaduna on Tuesday, the council said executing the judgement will serve…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram has released a graphic video showing the execution of a Nigerian soldier and policeman. Reports indicate that the video, dated Thursday, June 11, 2020, was made by the insurgents following the abduction of a soldier and three others at a checkpoint before Gasarwa Village, about 40 kilometres from Monguno Local…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A military court in Suriname sentenced President Desi Bouterse to 20 years in prison Friday over the executions of political opponents when he was the South American country’s dictator in the 1980s. Bouterse, 74, is on a state visit to China and will appeal the judgement when he returns next week, his…