LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Thursday sentenced a former Ugandan child soldier who became a commander of the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) to 25 years in prison for crimes including rape, sexual enslavement, child abduction, torture and murder. Dominic Ongwen, who was taken into ICC custody in 2015, was convicted…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Burkina Faso court charged former President Blaise Compaore in absentia on Tuesday in connection with the 1987 murder of then-President Thomas Sankara, one of the most infamous killings in Africa’s post-independence history. Sankara, a charismatic Marxist revolutionary often called “Africa’s Che Guevara”, was assassinated during a coup led by his former…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police have arrested additional five suspects in connection with the murder of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the leader of Afenifere, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. Olakunrin was killed in July 2019 by suspected kidnappers on the Ore-Lagos Expressway. The latest arrest by the policemen attached to Special Weapon and Tactics (SWAT) was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has disputed earlier report on online that Dr Bukola Saraki’s In-Law, Dapo Ijora committed suicide by shooting himself on his head in his house. Contrary to the earlier report, the Lagos State Police Command has affirmed that all evidences that they gathered in the scene where the…