LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have shot and macheted to death a politician, Oluwatosin Onamade, in the Ijede area of Ikorodu, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Onamade, until his death, was an aspirant for the chairmanship position of Ijede Local Council Development Area under the banner of the All Progressives Congress. His distraught brother, Oluwafemi…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-At least nine people were reportedly killed when cult gangs clashed while one of the many cult groups operating in Nigeria celebrated the 7/7 day. Daily Trust could not independently verify the number of those killed but sources said nine were hacked down Sunday and Monday mostly in the southern part of…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A professor of guidance and counseling at the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), Mary Grace Fajonyomi, has said that a student hacked his fathere’s bank account, withdrew over N25 million from his gratuity and used part of the money to play Bet9ja and organised a party for his girlfriend. The don made disclosed…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 37-year-old man, identified as Artur B., hacked his 100-year-old grandmother, Amalie G., to death using an axe. The incident happened on Monday in Hamburg, Germany, according to a Daily Mail report on Wednesday. Chief Public Prosecutor Liddy Oechtering told a local news platform, “According to the preliminary autopsy result, it can…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-MoMo Payment Service Bank, the new financial services subsidiary of telecoms company MTN Nigeria, suffered a breach in the last week of May just days after launch, reportedly losing 22 billion naira ($53 million.) Nigerian payment service banks operate with a mobile money license reserved for non-bank institutions. They offer deposits and…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mentally, challenged man, simply identified as Odogwu has allegedly hacked two women to death, while a man is battling to survive at the hospital at Ogijo area of Ogun State after he was also allegedly attacked. The suspect, it was learnt went berserk and started attacking anybody that crossed his part….
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, who hacked her two children to death in Kano has pleaded not guilty before a magistrate court. Recall that Hauwa, a health worker, killed her two children, Irfan Ibrahim, 6 and Zuhura Ibrahim, 3, and injured a niece, Aisha Sadiq, 10, at Diso Quarters in Gwale Local…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)- An Indian mother and daughter were hacked to death by three men over allegations of witchcraft in the country’s remote tribal-dominated east, police said Saturday. The 50-year-old woman and her young daughter were beaten by their neighbours before being attacked with knives on Wednesday night in West Singhbhum district in Jharkhand…
