LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Security operatives comprising police, army and local vigilante men yesterday killed three kidnappers along the Benin/Ekpoma road, in Edo State. The incident occurred at Okhuo, a community close to Ehor, headquarters of Uhunmwode local government area of the state. The rampaging kidnappers had reportedly taken over the ever busy highway on Tuesday…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspect, simply known as Osas, is on the run after allegedly killing his girlfriend, Elohor Oniorosa, on Christmas eve in what is suspected to be a ritual killing in Benin, Edo State. According to the Police spokesperson, SP Bello Kontongs, the father of the deceased, William Oniorosa, reported the case to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A twenty five-year-old female house help, Dominion Okoro, a native of Calabar, Cross River State, yesterday revealed how she used a stool in the early hours of December 2 to hit the head and killed Madam Maria Oredola Igbinedion, 85, the mother of former Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Igbinedion. Okoro,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has narrated what transpired between Christian Ehima, a 24-year-old undergraduate of Computer Science in the University of Benin; and soldiers at the Railway Checkpoint in Igbanke, Edo State. The Director of Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Onyema Nwachukwu, in a statement on Saturday, said contrary to the allegations by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has summoned one of its Guard Commanders in Edo State over the death of Christian Ehima, a 24-year-old undergraduate of Computer Science in the University of Benin. The inconsolable mother of the victim, an Assistant Superintendent of Police with the Delta State Police Command, Mercy Ehima, told Saturday PUNCH…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 70-year-old landlord, Solomon Odogbor and a painter were burnt beyond recognition after they were electrocuted during the painting of a house in Benin, the capital of Edo State on Friday. The incident occurred in an area close to the popular Edaiken Primary School Road, Uselu Quarters, in Egor Local Government Area…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Igbinedion’s household has been thrown into a mournful mood following the manner Maria Oredola Igbinedion, mother to two-time former governor of Edo State, Lucky Nosakhare Igbinedion was killed. THEWILL had exclusively reported that Maria from Usen in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, passed on, on Thursday December 2 at…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 70-year-old woman, Mrs. Beatrice Aigbedion was among those arrested with 5,000 kg of assorted illicit drugs in Edo State. Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi in a statement said, at the point of her arrest in Irrua, Edo State last Wednesday, 70-year-old Mrs. Aigbedion was caught with…