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 MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Adepele Ojo on Wednesday said that prima facie case had been established against the Hilton Hotel owner, Dr. Ramon Adedoyin and six of his staffers arraigned in connection with the death of late Timothy Adegoke, a Master’s student at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Adedoyin, and six of his staffers, Adedeji Adesola,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force is set to re-arraign the proprietor of Hilton Hotel, Rahmon Adedoyin, and six others over the murder of Timothy Adegoke, a student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife Osun State. This comes after Justice Module Adebiyi of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Abuja, struck out the…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Dozens of militia members have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for their involvement in the murder of two UN experts. Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan and American Michael Sharp were abducted and killed in the Kasai region in 2017. They were investigating alleged mass graves after fighting broke…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former army private admitted at a trial on Tuesday that he had helped transport a hit squad to assassinate Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, 34 years ago. The trial unfolding at a military court in Ouagadougou is being closely followed by the Burkinabe public, many of whom hope it will…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 60 suspects have been taken into police custody in Lagos in the aftermath of the brutal murder on Thursday of Chief Superintendent of Police Kazeem Abonde. The officer was killed in the Ajao Estate area of the state where he and his team had gone to enforce the ban…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uduak Akpan on Monday pleaded guilty to the murder of Iniubong Umoren, the Akwa Ibom woman who was lured out of her home with a fake job interview. He was arraigned before a State High Court judge in Uyo. Miss Umoren was raped and killed in April in the outskirts of Uyo…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Gambian court sentenced an ally of ex-dictator Yahya Jammeh to death Wednesday for his role in the murder of a former finance minister, an AFP journalist saw. Jammeh seized power in 1994 as part of a bloodless military coup in the tiny West African state. He then ruled with an iron…
