LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The corpse of a customs officer, who was abducted in Ogun State on Tuesday has been found. Suspected smugglers had ambushed a Customs patrol team at Yewa South Local Government Area of the state and abducted two customs officers in the process. The body of one of the officers was found in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor of ECWA church in Kibori-Asha Awuce in Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State, Reverend Silas Yakubu Ali, has been murdered by unknown assailants. Reverend Ali departed for Kafanchan on Saturday, September 11 and was not heard from until his corpse was found by a search party on Sunday morning at Kibori community,…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe’s remains at the national heroes’ shrine in Harare after accusing the late leader’s wife of breaking local custom by interring him at his rural home in 2019. Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup that brought Emmerson Mnangagwa to…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ogun State Police Command has arrested Sukurat Olajoke, 35, for allegedly killing her- month-old -a baby girl. The suspect, who allegedly dumped it in the Ogun river, has confessed that she killed the baby out of frustration because the man responsible for the pregnancy rejected it. Olajoke who had six children for…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed Abba Abbey Gidan Haki, the personal aide to former Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aliyu Wamakko. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Senator Wamakko, Bashir Rabe Mani, who confirmed the incident said that Abbey,50, was abducted on Thursday night, March 18. His corpse…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unidentified gunmen reportedly waylaid an ambulance conveying a dead body and kidnapped the younger brother of the deceased in Edo State. The deceased who died in Lagos was being conveyed in an ambulance from Lagos State to Enugu for the burial rites before the incident. The Gunmen were said to have…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnapped chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Philip Shekwo, has been found dead. Vanguard reports that his corpse was dumped around his home in Lafia. The chairman of Karu local government, Samuel Akala, also confirmed the death on his Facebook page. Governor Abdullahi Sule; the speaker of…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have reacted to the story of Nigeria police dumping the corpse of an accident victim by the road side after the body was rejected by the mortuary management of three hospitals in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The officers of the Nigerian Police Force in Abuja were reported to have…