LAGOS JULT 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ghanaian pastor in the United States of America, Sylvester Ofori, who shot and killed his wife Barbara Tommey in 2020, has been sentenced to life in prison. Ofori was sentenced after a jury trial which began on Monday, July 22nd on charges of first-degree murder. The Ghanaian pleaded guilty to the…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Thursday, a United Kingdom court found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. The couple were found guilty alongside a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta. They were convicted for facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court has sentenced a dismissed policeman, Mohammed Alidu to life imprisonment for defiling a nine-year-old schoolgirl in a barrack. Judge Abiola Soladoye, in her ruling, said Mr Alidu was a disgrace to the police because he failed to uphold law and order and went about…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s former president Blaise Compaore was sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment for complicity in the 1987 murder of his predecessor Thomas Sankara in a coup, a military tribunal ruled on Wednesday. The charismatic Marxist revolutionary Sankara was gunned down in the West African nation’s capital Ouagadougou at the age of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, and two others have been sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The other two convicts are Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu while one Ogechi Uchechukw and two former soldiers, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba, were acquitted for lack of…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS) – Hissene Habre, the former strongman president of Chad and security ally of the West during the Cold War who was later jailed for war crimes, died on Tuesday in Senegal at the age of 79, Senegal’s justice minister said. Habre contracted COVID-19 at a clinic in the capital Dakar where…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ondo State High Court has sentenced the Founder of Sotitobire Praising Chapel, Pastor Samuel Babatunde, also known as Alfa Babatunde, to life imprisonment over the “disappearance” of a one-year-old boy, Gold Kolawole, in his church. The little boy was abducted by an unknown person during the church service at the children…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A New Zealand court has sentenced a man who killed 51 people at two mosques to life in prison without parole, the first person in the country’s history to receive this sentence. Australian Brenton Tarrant, 29, admitted to the murder of 51 people, attempted murder of another 40 people and one charge…