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 JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons, including Olubunmi Afuye, an Ondo-based journalist, have been shot dead in a robbery attack at a bank in Ilara- Mokin, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State. A policeman was also gunned down in the attack which happened on Thursday afternoon. The late Afuye, who was inside his car when…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Managing Director of a Murtala Muhammed Airport-based firm, Star Orient Nigeria Limited, Dare Osamo, and two others have been arraigned at the Yaba Magistrate Court, Lagos State for allegedly stealing N1 billion. The defendants, Osamo, Ayoola Olore Abisola and Hussaina Abdulkadir, were in the dock before Magistrate Mrs A. A. Oshiniyi…
