LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was a bloody day in Benin City, yesterday, as armed robbers shot dead four persons, including a baby, at the New Benin area of the state capital. Another four sustained different degrees of gunshot wounds as the hoodlums, one of who was allegedly armed with an AK 47 assault rifle, shot sporadically…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Cross River State has confirmed the murder of an Assistant Commissioner of Police, Mr Egbe Edum, by gunmen in the early hours of Wednesday in Calabar. Edum before his murder was the Borno State Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP). Speaking with Channels Television in Calabar, the police spokesperson,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-— A man was arrested after he drove a speeding car into a pedestrian area in the western German city of Trier on Tuesday, police said, killing five people, including a 9-month-old. The crash injured at least 14 others, in addition to killing a 73-year-old woman, and the infant, Mayor of Trier,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unidentified gunmen on Friday shot dead a police officer in Ekiti State and abducted an expatriate. Another expatriate is also said to have sustained a gunshot wound. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Sunday Abutu confirmed that the incident took place earlier this evening along an inter-town road under…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed one of the vicars of the First Baptist Church Ikere Ekiti, Reverend Oladimeji, in Ikere-Igbara Odo road, Ikere Ekiti, the headquarters of Ikere Local government area of Ekiti State. Rev Oladimeji was murdered on Friday morning at a spot around the College of Education…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 people were killed on Sunday and many others abducted when kidnappers blocked the Kaduna-Abuja expressway around 5 pm, witnesses said. The incident happened around Gidan Busa, a village not far away from Rijana, which is 133 kilometres to Abuja. It was gathered that nearly 20 vehicles were forced to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A team of Zone B, Kaduna Customs officers operating on Kamba/Bunza Road shot at a group of youths, killing one and injuring several others, according to the Daily Nigerian. However, a statement issued by the commission’s spokesperson on Thursday, Ma Magaji, said the youths attacked the officers after they stopped a vehicle…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have shot dead the legislative assistant to the Ebonyi state House of Assembly Deputy Speaker, Obasi Kingsley. According to reports, Obasi Kingsley was shot dead by the men who trailed him while he was on his way home on Wednesday, November 11. The deceased was said to be preparing for his wedding…