LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man, Sunday Osemeahon, has been sentenced to 32-year imprisonment after a jury found him guilty of the murder of another Nigerian, Obasanjo Adeola Owoyale. The accused person, Osemeahon had allegedly killed the victim, a family friend who had given him a lift after withdrawing a high sum of money from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian judicial panel says that army soldiers “shot, injured and killed” peaceful protesters demonstrating against police brutality at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos in Oct. 2020. The report calls the shootings “a massacre.” Police also “shot at, assaulted and battered unarmed protesters, which led to injuries and deaths,” the panel…
LAGOS AUGUST 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Students of Lagos State University (LASU) have started to protest the killing of Yusuf Nurudeen, a student leader shot dead by gunmen on Wednesday. The protesting students converged on the school gate to express their displeasure with the death of the student leader. The student leader who graduated in 2019 was held…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Sudanese court on Thursday sentenced to death six members of the country’s paramilitary forces convicted of killing six people at a pro-democracy student protest in central Sudan two years ago. Sudan has been on a fragile path to democratic rule since the ouster of longtime dictator Omar al-Bashir in April 2019,…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified axe man is on a killing spree in Ahaba village in Orodo community in Mbaitoli Council Area of Imo State. It was gathered that he has reportedly beheaded three persons and chopped off the hands of at least five persons. Villagers claim he disappears into thin air after each attack….
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Government has said men of the Nigeria Customs Service raided Igangan and other parts of Ibarapa areas of the state on Friday night, and not unknown gunmen as widely reported. Mr Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde made the clarifications in a statement on Saturday…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Sunday in Gusau, expressed shock at the killing of 13 police officers by suspected bandits. The police personnel were gunned down at a mobile camp in Kurar Mota community in the Bagudu Local Government Area of the state. The governor’s reaction is contained in a statement…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has debunked romour of its operative killing 14-year-old girl during the Yoruba nation protest in Lagos on Sunday. The Police in a statement titled, “Re: Alleged Killing of 14 year-old Girl at Oodua Rally in Lagos”, signed by Lagos State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO), CSP Olumiyiwa…