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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herdsmen on Thursday night struck in Ngutsen village, Wurojam Ward, Gasol Local Government Area of Taraba State, killing at least four persons. The strike by the gunmen came just a few hours after the Taraba State Governor, Darius Ishaku, raised the alarm that there are plans to…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bauchi State Police Command have arrested a 17 year old boy identified as Nuhu Bulus of Boloji ward, Toro Local Government Area of Bauchi State who killed his 65-year-old father, Bulus Azi. According to police reports, the boy killed the father by hitting him with a mud pot, wood and Sickle….
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Ugiagbe Street, off First Ugbor Road, in the Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State, when a middle-aged major in the Nigerian Army, Afisatu Ajuya, was allegedly murdered by her security guard and eight others. It was gathered that Ajuya, who was serving in one of the South-South states,…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than nine persons have been killed by gunmen following an attack in a suburb of Iware community along Fufore/Jada road in Adamawa State. Residents said the gunmen also abducted seven children during the attack which lasted for hours. A resident, who pleaded anonymity, said, “Some gunmen suspected to be kidnappers…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension at Idumota Area of Lagos Island, Lagos, yesterday, following the assassination of the personal assistant to a leader of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Kunle Azeez aka Kunle Poly. Our source learnt that the deceased identified simply as Ganiu (aka Piero), Kunle Poly and some security…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Fulani man has been apprehended in Ogun State after stabbing his tribesman to death during an argument today. .According to an eyewitness report, the suspected killer, Abubakar, stabbed the deceased 3 times in the stomach and back in Ilishan Remo. Abubakar, still stained with the blood of the deceased, was however…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), on yesterday, shot and killed a young man at about 08:00am in Abule-Egba area of Lagos State. The boy, identified to be Toheeb Olayiwola, boarded a public bus to convey him to his place of work but was hit on his head when customs officers…