LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested in the Brazilian city of São Paulo on suspicion of stealing a car with a two-month-old baby inside it. The baby boy’s mother had briefly left him in the car, parked in front of an after-school children’s activity centre, while collecting her seven-year-old daughter on Thursday. CCTV…
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young man suspected to be under the influence of drugs allegedly set his family house on fire following a heated argument with relatives in Lagos. In a video circulating on social media in the early hours of Wednesday, family members were seen struggling to escape from the burning building as…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) Bauchi State Command has arrested a 30-year-old man, Hanif Muhammed Umar for allegedly using a fake bank transfer alert to obtain a car valued at N7m. The Public Relations Officer of the command, Saminu Yusuf, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in the Mabushi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Wednesday after three suspected touts, locally known as agbero, and linked to the Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC), were set ablaze by an angry mob for allegedly causing the deaths of a man, his wife, and their son….
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sule Fabiyi, a septuagenarian residing in Osogbo, Osun State, has narrated how banker Abdulwahab Sani Shehu allegedly terminated a N10.5 million fixed deposit investment he once had with First Bank and subsequently mismanaged the sum. While speaking with FIJ on Friday, Fabiyi said Shehu used to be the financial institution’s business banker…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have arrested Moses Amarks, an 18-year-old student at the College of Health in Kwamba, Suleja, for allegedly faking his own kidnapping to extort money from his parents. Mr Amarks and his accomplices reportedly used a hidden number to call his mother, demanding a ransom of N50 million for his release….
LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The passenger who allegedly assaulted airline officials on an Ibom Air flight inbound Lagos from Uyo, Comfort Emmanson, has been charged to court. The special adviser on media and communications to the minister of aviation and aerospace development, Tunde Moshood, said Ms Emmanson was remanded in Kirikiri correctional facility. Mr Moshood spoke…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Footage has emerged of Olympic gold medallist sprinter Sha’Carri Richardson allegedly attacking her boyfriend Christian Coleman at an airport. Richardson was detained last week in Seattle and a police report said footage appeared to show Coleman being shoved into a wall before an item was thrown at him. https://cf.eip.telegraph.co.uk/store/vid-media/d902a7d4/fallback/d902a7d4-mp4-fallback.mp4 The 25-year-old Richardson…