LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Uyo has sentenced to death three women who kidnapped three children in Uyo and sold them off in Aba, Abia State for N1.1m. The convicts – one Enobong Nsikak Sunday, 38; Getrude Thompson Akpan, 48; and Mary Okon James, 49 years old, were sentenced…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rapper Fetty Wap apologized to his family, friends — and the addicts he sold drugs to — as he was sentenced to six years in prison Wednesday for his part in a bi-coastal narcotics ring. The hip hop star — whose real name is Willie Junior Maxwell II — was accused of…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ekiti State High Court in Ado Ekiti has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for conspiracy and armed robbery. The defendants, Omotayo Deji (23), Chidiebere Ifeanyin (25) and Bolaji Usman (28), were arraigned before Justice Bamidele Omotoso on January 21, 2020, on four-count charge bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery….
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…