LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A COUPLE jumped to their deaths while clutching their baby in a desperate attempt to escape their burning flat. The pair jumped from the seventh-floor apartment in Brazil with their two-month-old son in front of horrified onlookers. Luiz Evaldo Lima, Graciane Rosa de Oliveira, and baby Léo Oliveira de Lima died on…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a two-month-old baby boy from a couple, Mr and Mrs James Uwam, during the naming ceremony of the child in the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Saturday, said the couple paid N2,350,000 to buy the baby from…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian couple has allegedly tortured their daughter to death in Adamawa State, SaharaReporters has learnt. The couple, Yakubu Isa Arisko, 36, and Veronica Linus, 34, reportedly conspired and murdered their daughter, Eunice Yakubu, whom they accused of practising witchcraft. They reportedly tied the 9-year-old with a rope and left her in…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-PETER Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, in 2023 general election in Nigeria, has condemned the gruesome killings of 30 persons in Mangu, Plateau State and the murder of husband and wife, who were dumped in the boot of their car in Anambra State. Obi made the condemnation in a…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Anambra State have arrested a couple for trafficking a one month old baby into Anambra State from Lagos. The couple confessed to buying the child for N30,000, after they were arrested at Bridgehead Onitsha, while travelling into Anambra from Lagos, after a tip-off by a fellow passenger. In a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos-based lawyer, Blessing Ahmed, of Blue Diamond Law firm, has called on the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, to as a matter of urgency urge his operatives to firm up investigations and charge to court a matter relating to money diversion and fraud to check the…
LAGOS JULY 15TH *NEWRANGERS)_The Nigeria Police, Plateau State Command has arraigned one Dr Aniyi Williams and his wife Mrs Yinka Aniyi Williams for using a fake company name to commit crime of issuing visa and travel ticket to Canada and other European countries . According to the police, Dr Aniyi Williams registered an online organization…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Imo State, south-east Nigeria, said they have arrested nine suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) who allegedly killed five officers and a couple in the state. The police spokesperson in the state, Henry Okoye, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. PREMIUM TIMES reported how…