LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted a large consignment of cocaine concealed in the heads of imported dry stock fish, popularly known as “Okporoko,” and arrested a suspected kingpin involved in trafficking the illicit substance to India. The agency said the seizure followed intelligence on the syndicate’s trans-border…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a shipment of cocaine concealed in twenty sets of religious books bound for Saudi Arabia. According to the Director, Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the cocaine consignment consisted of twenty parcels with a total weight of 500 grams…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Spanish authorities said on Monday they had seized seven tons of cocaine stashed in sea freight containers buried underneath a farm, arresting three suspected smugglers. Police posted video of the seizure, showing officers digging up ground and retrieving dozens of packages containing the alleged drugs. The Civil Guard police said they launched the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A business woman in Gboko Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state identified as Mrs. Nguhemen Sesugh has been reportedly murdered by conmen who also buried her remains in a shallow grave. It was gathered from a source in Gboko that the deceased who before her death traded in bags of rice was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of Burkina Faso’s revered revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara is to be buried alongside 12 comrades at the spot where in 1987 they were assassinated, the country’s ruling junta said on Friday. The ceremony will take place “in February” at the site of a memorial that already marks the location, the…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police forensics investigators have identified bodies of two persons murdered and buried in a shallow grave in northeastern Thailand as a Nigerian man and a Vietnamese woman. A wild mushroom harvester discovered their bodies in a forest at Chok Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima on the evening of July 28, 2022. The man…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mourners were nowhere to be seen as gravediggers in Nigeria’s southeast town of Ohaji-Egbema used shovels to place the unidentifiable charred remains of dozens who died in an explosion at an illegal oil refinery into three mass graves. The bodies had started to decompose after not being claimed by family members at…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Dozens of charred bodies were buried in mass graves on Tuesday in Nigeria’s Imo state as the stench of decomposing flesh hung in the air after more than 100 people were killed during a weekend explosion at an illegal oil refinery. A group of men, some bare chested and without…