LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A top leader of Mexico’s violent Jalisco New Generation cartel was sentenced to life in US prison Friday for his bloody role in creating one of the world’s most powerful drug syndicates. Ruben Oseguera Gonzalez, 35, is the son of Mexico’s most-wanted man — Jalisco New Generation leader Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, who…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Iranian court has reportedly sentenced tattooed pop star Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, known as Tataloo, to death for blasphemy. The 37-year-old singer has been in detention in Iran since December 2023 after being extradited from Turkey. Multiple Iranian media sources, including the Iranian newspapers Etemad and Jame Jam, reported on Sunday that…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The adult son of North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer was sentenced to serve 28 years in prison Monday in connection with a wild chase in which he fled from a hospital and drove into a deputy’s vehicle, killing the deputy. Ian Cramer, 43, pleaded guilty in September to all of the charges…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-nine children could be facing the death penalty in Nigeria after they were arraigned Friday for participating in a protest against the country’s record cost-of-living crisis. Four of them collapsed in court due to exhaustion before they could enter a plea. A total of 76 protesters were charged with 10 felony counts,…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State High Court sitting has sentenced a Chinese national, Frank Geng-Quangrong, 47, to death by hanging for stabbing his Nigerian girlfriend, Ummukulsum Sani, 22, to death. The Chinese, living in Railway Quarters, Kano, was convicted on a one count charge of culpable homicide on Tuesday. Delivering judgment, Justice Sanusi Ado-Ma’aji…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Dani Alves once said he would “play until I’m 50” if someone threatened his record of trophies won, but his career was brought to a halt in January 2023, when UNAM of Mexico released him after the Brazilian was charged with rape. He was found guilty of raping a young woman at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Hakeem Oshodi of the Lagos High Court, Ikeja, on Tuesday sentenced one Clement Ododomu to death by hanging over the killing of Department of State Services, DSS, officers. The judge also sentenced one Tiwei Monday to 16 years in a correctional centre. Justice Oshodi said he delivered the judgement after considering…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Ibironke Harrison of a Lagos High Court has sentenced a police officer, Darambi Vandi, to death by hanging for shooting dead a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Omobolanle Raheem, on the last Christmas Day. Justice Harrison sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square annex division of the Lagos state High Court said his defence…