By: Zagazola Makama LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a harrowing display of mob injustice, 16 innocent travelers from Northern Nigeria lost their lives in the Udune Efandion community of Uromi, Edo State, after being falsely accused of kidnapping. This unfathomable tragedy unfolded on Thursday, as an irate mob took the law into their own hands, fueled…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A 23-year-old scavenger simply identified as Nura was reportedly manhandled by a mob for allegedly stealing a pot of rice at Kango community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). A resident of Kango, Ayuba Iliya, said the incident happened on Tuesday around 11:23am when the scavenger allegedly took away…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police command in Kano has launched an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the alleged beheading of a minor, Mohammed Saidu, by an almajiri at Kanwa village, Madobi LGA. The police commissioner in Kano, Usaini Gumel, disclosed this on Friday. The police chief said six-year-old Saidu was allegedly killed by a 16-year-old…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two tout brothers from same parents were on Wednesday afternoon, reportedly lynched and set ablaze by angry mob at Haruna/Bida junction, within the Onitsha Central mosque axis, near Oniitsha Main market, for extorting and robbing tricycle and commercial bus drivers. It was gathered that the brothers, simply identified as Omuma and Sunday,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH 9NEWSRANGERS)-A mob looking for Israelis and Jews overran an airport in Russia’s Caucasus republic of Dagestan on Sunday, after rumours spread that a flight was arriving from Israel. The violence in the mostly Muslim region, which comes as war rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, prompted Israel to call on Russia…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected armed robber has been lynched by an angry mob for allegedly robbing a unisex salon on Governors Road in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect was part of a three-man gang that attacked the salon around 11am on Saturday and dispossessed both workers and…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi yesterday attended the Crossover night at Holy Ghost Adoration Ministry Uke, Anambra State. According to a motion picture of the event, the former Anambra governor was mobbed was mobbed worshippers who expressed excitement having him in the church. Obi who addressed the adorers…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos state Police command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin has recently shared the story of an unidentified man who was almost lynched by a mob in Lagos state after he took his son’s dead body to a bus terminal to transport him to the village for burial. According…