LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected armed robber, Williams Abiodun, on Wednesday, narrated how his gang killed their victims and sold their vehicles in Benin, Edo State. Abiodun, while being paraded alongside 10 other suspects at the command headquarters in Edo State, said he and four members of his gang usually disguised as site workers to…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man identified as Akugbe Ogbidi has been shot dead in Benin City, Edo State, by gunmen suspected to be hired killers. The victim, an indigene of Obazagbon near Benin city, was at a party in Benin on Saturday, January 14, 2023, when he received a telephone call. He left the party and went…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Honourable Minister Of Transportation, Mu’azu Jaji Sambo had assured Nigerians that the Rail Modernization Programme would connect every state capital in Nigeria. The Honourable Minister gave the assurance while delivering a speech on behalf of Vice President Yemi Osibanjo at the 20th Convocation Ceremony of Igbinedion University, Okada. The Minister…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives attached to the IGP Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering (IGP-STFPIB) in the late hours of August 7, 2022, successfully busted an illegal petroleum refining operation in Edo State. This follows the interception of intelligence on activities of an alleged illicit petroleum products refining syndicate operating adjacent to…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, gave the state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro seven days ultimatum to unravel the circumstances surrounding the 20 embalmed bodies found in an uncompleted building in Ekenwan road axis of Benin City. The Special Adviser to the governor on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie, gave the ultimatum…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a mild drama, on Thursday when one Osaro Nappiar, an Edo resident, identified his mother’s corpse at an uncompleted building at Ekenhua road in Benin City. The man was among those who visited the site when the operatives of the Edo State Police Command were cordoning off the building, residents…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Edo state police command have busted a suspected ritual shrine in Benin, the state capital. A graphic video of the shrine showed mummified bodies stacked on an iron rack and others standing against the wall of the room. A statement late Wednesday night by the command’s deputy image maker, ASP…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eight people have been reportedly killed in the last 24 hours in a fierce rivalry between two cult confraternities, in Benin, Edo State. The incident has set the state capital boiling, with the eight confirmed deaths occurring at various locations in the city. Two of the victims were reportedly…