LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenyan President William Ruto has promised to stop abductions of government critics, in an apparent change of stance for a leader who has previously called the wave of disappearances “fake news.” Ruto, his government officials and police have maintained for months that there were no abductions. Ruto has also demanded names of…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Glory Osinachi is living and experiencing the worst nightmare of any mother. The woman, who appeared to be in shock, said that her three children, all boys, had been stolen by a commercial cyclist on May 10, 2024. It has been over 90 hours, but the children seem to have disappeared into…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have arrested a 40-year-old man, Adetomiwa Adeyinka, at Ahmadiyya Ijaiye, Ojokoro area of Lagos, for allegedly strangling his girlfriend who visited him in his house and sleeping with her corpse. Adeyinka, on September 12, went to the police, and lied that the lady, 36-year-old Chinonso Okomadu, who he referred…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Quote: “Neither the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia (FPS), nor Prigozhin (Evgeny Prigozhin, the Russian financier and founder of the infamous Wagner Group) or the Ministry of Defence of Russia published any official information about the number of inmates recruited to fight in the war. The scale of recruiting may have been…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When Mrs. Treasure Jackson went to the Badagry market on 26 October 2022, she had many things running through her mind as she crisscrossed the length and breadth of the busy market; seeking the best deals available. Desperate for better fortunes to expand her struggling business in Benin City, Edo State, Mrs…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There were drama, anger, confusion, and protest at the morgue of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State when activists, a lawyer, and family members went to demand the corpse of an allegedly murdered student activist, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as Omomeewa. Omomeewa was attacked along the Egbeda Igando Road a few hours…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle aged woman suspected to be a police officer, whose name was given as Chidimma Ndubuisi, on Wednesday said to have escaped from the premises of the Federal Medical Center, FMC, Owerri, and jumped into the bush path of Nworie River from where she disappeared. The incident Vanguard gathered in Owerri,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command said it has commenced investigations into the sudden disappearance of Mr. Hanson Chuku, a graduate of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rivers State. Chuku, a councillorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rundele ward 7 in Emuoha Local Council of the state,…