LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWRANGERS)-A kidnapped victim along Benin-Ore has alleged that the frequent abduction of travelers along the the Benin-Ore expressway specially by Igbogi community is organised by a cartel made up of some security personnel, hawkers along the road and some influential people within the area. The victim was kidnapped on Friday close to…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, sitting in Maitama on Monday sentenced a social media activist, Ibrahim Wala, popularly known as IG Wala, to 12 years imprisonment. Mr Wala, a social media activist, was arraigned following a petition filed by the chairman of National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, NAHCON,…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A High court sitting in Awka has discharged and acquitted two remaining suspects standing trial for alleged involvement in the killing of worshipers in a church in Ozubulu, Anambra state. In a ruling that lasted for over three hours, Justice Fidelis Aniukwu ruled that the prosecution counsel was unable to prove beyond…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It is no news that no fewer than 23 Nigerians are on the death row in Saudi Arabia. The news however is that out of the twenty three Nigerians waiting for execution in Saudi Arabia because of hard drug related offences, seventeen of them are from the Yoruba tribe of Western Nigeria….
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Alasiya in Abraham Adesanya Estate area, in the Eti-Osa Local Government Area of Lagos State, were thrown into panic on Sunday as a suspected clash by rival cults left five corpses on the streets. Eyewitnesses, who spoke to PUNCH Metro, said the clash started around midnight, adding that two of…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the police officers who fatally shot at a couple on Saturday morning in Ajegunle, Lagos, “escaped” after the incident and has been declared wanted, the police have said. Bala Elkana, the Lagos police spokesperson, said five officers are now in custody following the incident. The deceased, identified as Ada Ifeanyi,…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons connected with the kidnapping of Friday Okeregbe, a Channels TV reporter, have been arrested. The police made this known on Sunday in a statement by spokesman, Frank Mba, adding that other members of the abduction gang are still at large. The suspects, all males, were identified as Hanniel Patrick, 29…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force said it had killed nine suspected members of a notorious armed robbery gang at Akilbu forest , off Abuja-Kaduna Express Way. A statement by the Force spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, on Sunday in Abuja, said this followed an exchange of gun fire between the…