LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension has enveloped Owupa and Orokam communities in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue State following the killing of a councillor-elect and his cousin by suspected kidnappers. Consequently, youths from the two communities on Friday barricaded the highway and protested the killing as well as incessant kidnapping in both communities. Sources said…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in the Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State as a bishop and his son were murdered in a renewed communal clash in the locality. Baise is the local government of origin to the state deputy governor, Professor Ivara Esu. The murder is in the heat of the intercommunity…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A young man is wanted after he allegedly killed his mother, and buried her in a shallow grave. The man, identified as Chukwudi Chukwu, a native of Umumnakpi village, Egwu Achi community in Oji River, Enugu, is said to have killed his mother on Sunday, March 21. After killing her, he reportedly…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report. The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an “execution ground”, where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said. Several people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported. The beheadings…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A terrorism investigation was launched after a teacher was beheaded in the street in the OCnorthwest Parisian suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine on Friday evening, October 16, reports said. Police reportedly pursued the suspect into the neighboring town of Eragny, where he was shot and killed. According to reports, the victim, a middle-school history…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mother and her baby have been beheaded by yet-to-be identified persons in Ile-Ife, Osun State. The headless bodies were found near a primary school in Ile-Ife. The spokesperson of the Osun State Police Command, Yemisi Opalola, confirmed the incident on Wednesday. Opaola said the corpses were dumped opposite the AUD Primary…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic at Alaiyiama, Obollo community, in the Isiala Mbano Local Government Area of Imo State, following the beheading of a 68-year-old woman, Mrs Augustina Inebere. This is even as the police arrested the Pastor-in-Charge of Arm of the Lord Church, Goddy Onyeho, for allegedly giving what the police called a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor of Champion Arena, Ebom in Abi local government area of Cross River State, George Lifted, and a commercial motorcyclist, have been murdered in the state. The incident occurred in the early hours of Saturday along Adim in Ebom. The pastor, according to DAILY POST’s findings, was being conveyed in a…