LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An elephant in eastern India killed a 70-year-old woman and then returned to her funeral to trample her corpse. The incident occurred in Odisha state on Thursday, police said. Maya Murmu was at a tube well drawing water in Mayurbhanj district’s Raipal village when the wild elephant appeared out of nowhere. Authorities…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has been killed in the United State of America by a drunk driver just six weeks after arriving in the state. Tributes from family and friends have poured in for the man identified as Patrick Ohanta, 45, who was said to have been hit and killed by a car…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 41-year-old Nigerian, Obinna Igbokwe, on Wednesday night in Texas, United States, shot his wife, Tangela Igbokwe, killed her mother and fled to North Texas with their three-month-old son, Mansa, before finally killing himself. Igbokwe lived in Spring, Montgomery County of Dallas, Texas. According to the U.S. police, Obinna Igbokwe and his…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy hit parts of Damaturu, the Yobe State capital on Monday, as a heavy rainstorm left no fewer than five people were confirmed dead, with 41 persons sustaining various degrees of injuries. Wounded survivors of the storm, including the remains of the dead, were moved to the Specialist Hospital, Damaturu, according to…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos state police command has arrested a young man identified as Ifeanyi Njoku for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Precious Okeke, 24, in an estate at Badore, in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The live-in lovers stayed on Oke Street and it was alleged that Njoku killed his girlfriend for ritual…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdulkareem Ojonla Jimoh, a Federal Road Safety Corps personnel have been killed by the driver of an 18-seater passenger bus on the Sagamu-Ore-Benin highway. The bus driver, whose white Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number NEM 618 AA was said to have crushed the FRSC officer, also ran over a motorist whose…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 25 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo have died after a high-tension power cable snapped and fell on houses and a market in the outskirts of the capital Kinshasa. “A high-voltage electric cable fell on several houses in the Matadi-Kibala district and in the market, several people died on…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police has arrested a 23-year-old man, Mark Njuguna, for allegedly killing his four-month-old son in Gatanga Murang’a, Kenya. In a video that has gone viral, the suspect is seen physically assaulting his wife Mary Muthoni, using a belt while their baby is crying on the floor. The suspect later grabbed the infant, who he claims…
