LAGOS February 1st (newsrangers)-A diet of rice, beans and crusts of dry bread drove Sakina’s family to the verge of starvation. Her 2-year-old son’s irregular heartbeat sent her into the snow and freezing cold of Afghanistan’s mountains in a bid to save little Nisar Ahmed. She traveled by group taxi for more than an hour…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Dozens of militia members have been sentenced to death in the Democratic Republic of Congo for their involvement in the murder of two UN experts. Swedish-Chilean Zaida Catalan and American Michael Sharp were abducted and killed in the Kasai region in 2017. They were investigating alleged mass graves after fighting broke…
LAGOS JANAURY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Saudi tourist was trampled to death by an elephant during a game drive at a popular park in Uganda, a wildlife official said Wednesday. The attack happened on Tuesday at the Murchison Falls National Park when the man left the vehicle he was travelling in with friends, said Uganda Wildlife Authority spokesman Bashir Hangi….
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ikechukwu Kennedy, the first son of his parents and a young clearing agent from Imo state woke up this morning to go out to put food on his and his family’s table, little did he know that his source of income will bring about his death today. He just got killed yesterday…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A businessman, identified simply as Uchechukwu, aka Alloy Omo Jesu, is on the run after allegedly torturing his 11-year-old apprentice to death in the Ogba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the apprentice, Sunday, was accused of stealing N1,000 when Uchechukwu, who was bent on making him confess to the…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Ogun 1 Area Command who were pursuing some suspected rice smugglers Thursday night have shot a two-year-old girl. The incident occurred at Itawaya, near the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State. Photos made available to this newspaper showed the bullet…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has expressed his sympathies to the Governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, and to the people of Oyo State, over the death of their former Governor, Otunba Christopher Alao-Akala. Obi in a condolence message on Friday…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has arrested two minors, who claimed to be up-and-coming artistes, for allegedly stabbing a Redeemed Christian Church of God’s pastor, Babatunde Dada, to death. The suspects, Farouk, 15, and Jamiu, 17, were paraded on Friday by the state Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu. The minors were said…
