LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRNAGERS)-A man identified as Alexander Peter has been arrested by the Akwa Ibom State Police Command for allegedly hacking his 71-year-old mother, Mrs Atiny Peter, to death with a machete. The incident occurred in Ikot Inyang village, located in Oruk Anam Local Government Area of the state. The arrest was confirmed by…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two people have died and hundreds have been arrested across France after Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) fans celebrated the club’s victory in the Champions League final, according to the French interior ministry. In the south-west town of Dax, a 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in the chest late on Saturday evening, local…
LAGOS MAY 26TH 9NEWSRANGERS)-A former flight attendant caught smuggling over 100 pounds of a deadly new synthetic drug made of human bones faces up to 25 years in a Sri Lankan prison. Charlotte May Lee, 21, from the United Kingdom, was seized at Bandaranaike Airport in the Sri Lankan capital of Colombo earlier this month after…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 25-year-old man, Samson Oghenebreme, in Lagos while transporting human organs from Edo State to a native doctor for use in money-making rituals. The command, in a statement by its spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said, “Operatives of Odo-Noforija Division have arrested one Samson…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Investigators from the Peel Regional Police Fraud Bureau have arrested and charged an individual in connection to an alleged online romance scam, totaling more than $600,000. Between June 2021 and July 2023, two victims believed they were in a genuine romantic relationship with the suspect, whom they met through an online dating…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fugitive diamond trader Mehul Choksi has been arrested in Belgium following an extradition request from India, authorities in New Delhi said on Monday. The 65-year-old is accused of being involved in an alleged fraud of nearly $1.8 billion (€1.58 billion) against India’s second-biggest state-run lender by assets, Punjab National Bank (PNB), in…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command on Tuesday confirmed the location where the Lagos State University graduate, Adedamola Ogunbode, was buried, following the arrest of the principal suspect, Olaoluwa Ajisomo. PUNCH Metro exclusively learnt that the prime suspect, rumoured to have fled to the Benin Republic, was leading police detectives in locating the…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-To outsiders, Tania Gomez was the glamorous 33-year-old owner of a dog rescue centre in Stockholm, who had moved to Lanzarote for a quieter life. But to police, she was known as the “Cocaine Queen of Europe” and one of the Continent’s most wanted fugitives. Now, after four years on the run,…