LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A truck fell on a commercial bus at Ojuelegba, inwards Fadeyi, Lagos State, on Sunday, claiming eight lives. The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority officials were seen trying to rescue the victims. According to the agency, efforts were being made to rescue the victims. “A container laden truck has fallen on a…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-59-year-old security guard Bamiduro Adewulo has been killed by his ‘Personal Assistant’ Fumilayo Asojo while settling a dispute over an N700 debt. Asojo reportedly stoned Adewulo to death. He was said to be settling a dispute between Asojo and another man over N700. Sympathisers rushed the victim to the hospital where he…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 300-level student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, (FUTA) identified as Olona Joseph Oluwapelumi, has committed suicide in his private lodge in the Aule area of Akure, the state capital. According to sources, the student who was from the Department of Industrial Design took his own life by hanging himself…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Iran’s judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of “waging war on God”, its Mizan news agency reported on Monday, defying growing international criticism over its fierce crackdown on demonstrators. Iran hanged two other men on Saturday, one of them a karate champion with several national titles, in…
LAGOS JANAURY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four policemen were killed yesterday as the convoy of a former governor of Imo state, Mr. Ikedi Ohakim was attacked by gunmen. Ohakim escaped death by whiskers as the vehicle the four policemen were in was burnt by the assailants of the former governor. The gunmen were said to have targeted the…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Pele’s mum is unaware the soccer legend has died, his sister has revealed. Maria Lucia do Nascimento looks after their mother Celeste, who has just turned 100 and whose home is said to be on the route funeral organisers have planned before the football star is laid to rest in the world’s…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police are on the trail of one Yahaya who allegedly beat his brother, simply identified as Samson, to death for allegedly stealing a school’s property in Ijede area of Lagos State. Lagos Police Command spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. According to him, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kano State Upper Sharia Court on Thursday sentenced an Islamic cleric, Abduljabbar Kabara, to death by hanging after he was found guilty of the 4-count charge of blasphemy filed by the Kano State government. Mr Kabara, who is the son of the late Nasiru Kabara, a leader of the Qadariyya Islamic…
