LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja High Court has sentenced a domestic staff, Joseph Ogbu, to death by hanging for killing his employer, an 89-year-old woman, Ajoke John and her daughter, Oreoluwa in Lagos State. NAN reports that Justice Modupe Nicole-Clay held on Monday that the prosecution had sufficiently proven the 3-count charge bordering on murder…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State Upper Sharia Court on Thursday sentenced an Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Kabara, to death by hanging after he was found guilty of the 4-count charge of blasphemy filed by the Kano State government. Mr Kabara, who is the son of the late Nasiru Kabara, a leader of the Qadariyya Islamic…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Saudi student at Leeds University who had returned home to the kingdom for a holiday has been sentenced to 34 years in prison for having a Twitter account and for following and retweeting dissidents and activists. The sentencing by Saudi’s special terrorist court was handed down weeks after the US president…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A German court sentenced a former SS guard, now 101 years old, to five years in jail on Tuesday (June 28). He was accused of assisting in the murder of 3,518 people at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. The verdict brings an end to one of the last Nazi trials in Germany. Prosecutors…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Dominion Okoro, the housemaid who killed Madam Maria Igbinedion, mother of ex-governor of Edo state, Lucky Igbinedion, has been sentenced to death by hanging. Recall that the 85-year-old woman was murdered at her residence in GRA Benin City on December 2, 2021. Okoro said she had killed her employer because she wanted to steal her…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ondo State High Court, Akure, on Friday, sentenced three persons to death for killing Mrs Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of the Afenifere leader, Chief Reuben Fasoranti. The deceased was killed by the convicts along Benin-Ore-Sagamu Expressway in the Ore Odigbo Local Government Area of the state in June 2019, on her…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by the Lagos State Government. The judge sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on both counts….
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…
