LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Osun State High Court, sitting in Iwo, has sentenced an Islamic cleric, Kabiru Ibrahim, to death by hanging for the murder of his client, Lukman Adeleke. Ibrahim was charged with conspiracy, murder, and theft, contrary to Sections 324, 319(1), and 390 of the Criminal Code, Cap. 34, Laws of Osun State….
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square has convicted and sentenced to death, a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) driver, Andrew Ominikoron, for the murder of a 22-year-old fashion designer, Bamise Ayanwola. In a judgment that lasted over two and half hours, Justice Serifat Sonaike held that the prosecution, the…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The High Court in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, has sentenced Peter Nwachukwu, husband of the late gospel singer Osinachi Nwachukwu, to death by hanging. Justice Nwosu-Iheme, who passed the sentence on Monday, found him guilty of the singer’s death which happened on April 8, 2022, stating that the prosecution had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kwara State High Court has sentenced the five suspects involved in the Offa robbery case to death by hanging. This was pronounced by the court on Thursday afternoon after it was satisfied that the prosecution had successfully proved its case against the defendants. The defendants were convicted by Justice Haleema Salman…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State High Court sitting has sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, to death by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. The Chinese, living in Railway Quarters, Kano, was convicted on a one count charge of culpable homicide on Tuesday. Delivering judgment, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three men identified as Boma Thompson, Emelike Mathias, and Daniel Thankgod have been sentenced to death by hanging or lethal injection by Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt for allegedly conspiring to kidnap and murder one Chief Abbot Ogbobula in 2017. The Police had arraigned four suspects on four charges…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday sentenced one Clement Ododomu to death by hanging over the killing of Department of State Services, DSS, officers. The judge also sentenced one Tiwei Monday to 16 years in a correctional centre. Justice Oshodi said he delivered the judgement after considering…