LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A police sergeant, identified as Ahmed Ali, has been shot dead by some soldiers in Benisheikh town, Borno State after his team allegedly intercepted a soldier in a vehicle conveying Indian hemp. Local and security sources said that the incident occurred at the town’s entry checkpoint around 10am on Monday. A security…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected ballot box snatcher has been shot dead by soldiers on patrol at Bajida polling unit 001, Fakai Local Government Area of Kebbi South. The yet-to-be-identified man was reportedly shot dead while he was attempting to snatch a ballot box from officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 75-year-old grandmother, Mrs Iforiti Oloro, who set her own son, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren, ablaze in Ondo state, is dead. Mrs Oloro died at the hospital where she was rushed for treatment after her health condition got deteriorated. The old woman had penultimate weekend set fire on her own son; Victor,…
A Labour Party governorship aspirant in the forthcoming governorship primary holding in Imo State and CEO of Globe Motors, Humphrey Anumudu, has been found dead in his house. Anumudu was reported dead in his Lagos home after returning from a meeting at the LP secretariat in Abuja. The deceased was a native of Mbieri Ancient…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian soldier has reportedly shot dead a nursing mother and her baby after he injured a commercial motorcyclist popularly known as Okada rider over N200 bribe in Babanna community in the Borgu Local Government Area of Niger State. The incident occurred on Monday evening when the victims were returning home from the…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Campaign Director General of Tonye Cole, All Progressive Congress (APC) Gubernatorial candidate in Rivers State, has been killed. Naija News understands that the APC campaign DG of Ahoada West was abducted earlier in the build-up to Saturday’s governorship and the house of assembly elections. The politician was, however, found in the…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a 15-year-old boy, Pelumi Sulaimon, have been thrown into mourning after soldiers attached to Operation MESA allegedly shot him dead around Makoko, in the Yaba area of Lagos State. According to residents in the area, the soldiers were hired by political thugs to carry out a reprisal on their…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The family members, neighbours and friends of a 37-year-old farmer, Kehinde Egbeyi, are currently in a mourning mood after his corpse and that of his wife, Bukola, were found at their residence at Oke Erinja, Ilaro-Owode Road, in the Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the…