LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Intelligence Response Team have arrested members of kidnapping syndicate who allegedly killed three of their victims, after collecting N7.5 million ransom from their family members. The Force Public Relations Officer, DCP Frank Mba, disclosed this in Abuja on Monday, while parading 26 suspects arrested for kidnapping, armed robbery, unlawful…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man simply identified as Femi, stabbed his wife to death, and thereafter committed suicide in their home in Victory Park estate in Lagos state on Sunday, June 21. According to residents of the estate, the couple moved into the estate three weeks ago with their two young children. Not much…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Aco Amac Housing Estate in Sabon Lugbe, along Airport Road in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were on Saturday left in shock after the security guard of their neighbour gruesomely killed his boss’ wife and left his boss almost dead while attempting to escape with their property. It was gathered…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A drunken Police Sergeant has been arrested for allegedly stabbing an Inspector to death and injuring another victim. The yet to be named Sergeant is currently being detained at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department (SCIID) Yaba after the Inspector identified as Francis Adekunle died in the hospital Monday morning. It…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A thirty- five-year old woman, Bose Abiodun, who is a mother of four children spent over two years in Ilesha Prison (Correctional Centre) after her husband, Femi under was under trial for manslaughter flee, according a an exclusive interview she granted The Punch recently. The husband Femi who is a native of…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-France says it has killed the leader of al-Qaeda in North Africa, Abdelmalek Droukdel, in an operation in Mali. Defence Minister Florence Parly said Droukdel along with members of his inner circle had been killed in the north of the country on Wednesday. French forces had also captured a senior Islamic State…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ikeja Special Offences Court on Monday sentenced a technician, Rasak Abiona, to death for beating his 62-year-old father to death with an iron rod during a dispute over property in Lagos. Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo delivered the judgment in a virtual hearing. Justice Taiwo held that though the prosecution had presented circumstantial evidence…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Some 30 people have been killed in eastern Burkina Faso in a gun attack on a cattle market, reports say. Gunmen on motorbikes fired into the crowded market in Kompienga town around lunchtime on Saturday, eyewitnesses and residents said. It is unclear who was behind the attack, but Burkina Faso has seen…