LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over property in Lagos. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in a virtual hearing. Justice Taiwo held that though the prosecution had presented circumstantial evidence…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in the Iheaka community in Igboeze South Local Government Area of Enugu State yesterday as a man who was suspected to have beheaded his mother for ritual purposes was killed by his own father. The suspect, Kenneth Ugwu, who is a spare parts dealer based in Lagos allegedly visited his…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a horror show in Lagos on Tuesday after a 23-year old man, Michael Okhide, stabbed his father, Barrister Clement Okhide; his mother, Toyin, leaving them to bleed to death. One of their daughters, Mary, was found in a pool of her blood and was rushed to the hospital where doctors…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As controversies continue over the true identity of the suspect of last Sunday alleged attempt to bomb the Living Faith Church, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, the father of the victim, Mr. Samuel Ezekiel has declared that his son’s name is Nathaniel Samuel. He is of Jawara tribe, from Bauchi state. In an interview…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANERS)-A hairdresser, Ms Patience Oamen, yesterday told an Ikeja High Court how her 38-year-old brother, Nelson Oamen, allegedly stabbed their 78-year-old father to death with a broken bottle. Nelson, a carpenter, according to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), was arraigned on July 10, 2019, on a charge of murder, contrary to Section…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the management of Radio Communication Nigeria Limited, RCN, one of the companies owned by the acclaimed winner of June 12, 1993 election, late M.K.O Abiola has snowballed into legal hostilities. Two administrators and personal representatives to the Estate of the deceased business mogul, Boma Alabi,Timothy Hugh Daniel, alongside two…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten years after the foiled bombing of a US-bound flight from Amsterdam, Alhaji Umaru Abdul Mutallab, the father of the underwear bomber, Farouk, has spoken publicly about the incident for the first time, describing it as the most trying of his life. Mutallab senior, who is 80 years old, said he initially…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anthony Joshua has been the one of the biggest boxing star of this decade. The two-time unified heavyweight champion, having held WBA, IBF, WBO, and IBO titles, reigns as one of the professionals in heavyweight boxing. This we all know about Anthony Joshua, but only a few have information about his father, Robert…