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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnap kingpin, Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike aka Evans, and two others have been sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy and kidnapping of a businessman, Donatus Duru. The other two convicts are Uche Amadi and Okwuchukwu Nwachukwu while one Ogechi Uchechukw and two former soldiers, Chilaka Ifeanyi and Victor Aduba, were acquitted for lack of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A renowned journalist dubbed the “leading voice for human rights” in Vietnam by Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for Campaigns Ming Yu Hah was recently sentenced to nine years in prison. The trial: On Tuesday, Hanoi People’s Court judges found the 43-year-old, award-winning Vietnamese writer Pham Doan Trang guilty of “conducting propaganda…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Aung San Suu Kyi, the civilian leader of Myanmar who was ousted in a de facto coup this year, was convicted on two charges Monday and handed a four-year sentence that was quickly cut in half — in proceedings widely criticized as a further effort by the country’s military rulers to roll…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Billionaire kidnap kingpin , Chukwudimeme Onwuamadike known as Evans has been sentenced to death by a Lagos High Court on Thursday. At the sentencing by an Igbosere High Court in Lagos, Evans who was charged with kidnapping had pleaded not guilty. He was also charged for attempt to kidnap the chairman of…
