LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indian court has acquitted a Catholic bishop who was charged with raping a nun in a case that sparked widespread outrage and protests. Bishop Franco Mulakkal, 54, was acquitted by a court in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Friday, which said the prosecution had failed to prove any of…
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 JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Ekiti on Thursday said it has arrested a 65-year-old man, Durodola Ogundele, for allegedly having canal knowledge of his stepmother. A statement by the command’s Spokesperson, Mr Sunday Abutu, in Ado-Ekiti, said Ogundele was apprehended by the Ido-Osi Divisional Headquarters of the command on Wednesday at in Ido-Osi,…
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 MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-15-year-old junior secondary school student of Dutse Safe community, in Katsina State, has revealed how a custom officer allegedly raped and got her pregnant. According to the information made available by the Punch, the 15-year-old who has now given birth to the child and stays with her grandmother maintained that the customs…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A clergyman, Pastor Chris McDouglas Omosokpea, of Peculiar Generation Assembly Church, located at No.17/19 Mututiatu Kayode Street off Ayodele Street, Mafoluku area of Oshodi, Lagos, who is facing charge for rape of his member’s teen daughter, has secretly sold his church and fled to an unknown place. P.M.EXPRESS reports that Pastor Chris…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 35-year-old casual labourer was on Monday stoned to death for allegedly attempting to defile a three-year-old girl at Kambe market area in Ting’ang’a location of Kiambu Sub-county, Kenya. The victim, Michael Karimi Kai, died at the scene following the beating by members of the public who responded to a distress call…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 25-year-old guard, Daniel Amanda has confessed to raping a stranded housewife identified as Ola in the early hours of the 29th of July. Daniel Amanda, now in Police net, was said to have lured his victim to his house in the city of Ibadan, where he forcefully had canal knowledge of…