LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have shot dead Samson Sedi, a leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo state. Sedi, the youth leader of the APC in the area, was killed in Jattu on Wednesday. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Johnson Kokumo, confirmed the…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman walking across an Arizona road was hit and killed by a self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday — probably the first pedestrian fatality for the fast-growing movement toward driverless vehicles. Tempe police said Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode. In…
LAGOS MATCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspected lunatic, Lekan Adebisi, who killed two pupils of St. John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, Ogun State, has blamed his action on ‘frustration.’ Adebisi attacked and killed Mubarak Kalesowo and Sunday Obituyi on the school premises on Monday. The pupils were said to be on lunch…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, granted bail to Maryam Sanda, the woman who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. Maryam, who is the daughter of Maimuna Aliyu, a former Aso Savings Bank executive, was arraigned by the police for allegedly killing the son of a former PDP Chairman, Mohammed…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police say a suicide bomber riding a bicycle with explosive devices strapped to his body killed three people when he detonated himself in a crowded suburb of Nigeria’s northeast city of Maiduguri. Fox News Report. Borno State police spokesman Joseph Kwaji said Tuesday that at least 17 others were injured by the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Commissioner in Borno State Damian Chukwu, on Saturday confirmed that 18 persons were killed while 22 others injured in an attack on Friday. Chukwu said a male and two female suicide bombers detonated themselves at the Kasuwar Kifi in Konduga. He explained that the injured persons were referred to the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of No. 6, Soyinka Street, Bariga in Shomolu Local Government Area of Lagos State yesterday woke up to the tragedy caused by a midnight fire, which burnt a five-month old infant beyond recognition, left two other children in critical condition, and destroyed property worth millions of naira. The fire, which begun…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Justice Nayai Aganaba, Bayels State High Court, on Tuesday, sentenced to death by hanging of 30-year-old Victoria Gagariga for the killing of her husband, Henry Gagariga, on February 4, 2015 at the residence along Ebisam Road in Akenfa, Yenagoa, Bayelsa State. The deceased, a lawyer, and Victoria, a staff of the Bayelsa…