LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Indian couple has allegedly died by suicide by using a guillotine-like mechanism to decapitate themselves in a sacrificial ritual, police said Sunday. Hemubhai Makwana, 38, and his wife Hansaben, 35, both died by decapitation after using a homemade bladed mechanism in a hut on their farm in the western state of…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Utah father who killed his five kids, wife and mother-in-law and then shot himself left a suicide note saying he’d rather “rot in hell’ than “put up” with his “manipulative” spouse another day. Michael Haight, 42, was being investigated for child abuse when he shot his family earlier this year and…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has pleaded leniency for former Deputy Senate Ike Ekweremadu who was found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice with a doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The former Governor of Abia State, Senator Orji Kalu, has announced the passing on to eternal glory of his first wife, Mrs Ifeoma Kalu, who died at the age of 61. In a post on his official social media page, signed by him, the former governor and Chief Whip of the Senate…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-In the early hours of today, a suspected child trafficker, Daniel Chigozie, was granted an interview by a correspondent of the Punch Newspaper where he narrated how he sold his nine months-old child and eventually got arrested. Daniel Chigozie said, “the first time, I collected N150,000 from my uncle’s wife for giving…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More details have emerged concerning the death of aged Lagos couple, Engr. Femi Egbeoluwa and his wife, Funmi, murdered by their domestic staff members. The driver of the couple murdered in their apartment at 1, Adefolu Drive, Allen Avenue Ikeja, Lagos, last week, has turned himself in, to the Police. The driver was alleged to…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On Thursday, a United Kingdom court found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. The couple were found guilty alongside a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta. They were convicted for facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain with a view to his exploitation…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical middleman have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide a kidney, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were convicted in a British…