LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A family of five, including three school children, Thursday, escaped gunshot by the whisker as officers of Nigeria Customs Service went on the rampage early in the morning in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The school children were being conveyed to school by their mother simply identified as Mrs Obaji, when the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old boy for allegedly conniving with five others to abduct his mother and three others and collecting the sum of N30m as ransom. The state police spokesperson, SP Mohammed Shehu, while addressing journalists in Gusau, the state capital, on Friday, said the suspect, Thomas…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A 28-year-old man has been arrested for stabbing his Nigerian mother to death in east London. Detectives on Tuesday, November 1, 2022, charged Nicholas Aina, of Auriel Avenue, Dagenham, with the murder of his mother, 64-year-old Caroline Adeyelu. He was also charged with the attempted murder of another woman in her 30s. Police…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman has reportedly abandoned her 4-year-old son in a lottery shop in Enugu after incurring huge losses in gambling. The incident SaharaReporters gathered happened at Moore House Street, Ogui in the state capital on Thursday. Residents of the area said the woman left her son in the Lotto shop after she…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter were among eight persons who died Thursday in a stampede that occurred during a prayer service organised by the Comfort Life Mission International church in the Ikotun area of Lagos. Many worshippers also sustained severe injuries in the stampede. The bodies of the yet-to-be-identified woman,…
LAGOS JUNE 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Obumnaeme, son of the late Mrs. Dora Akunyili, a former Minister of Information, has revealed how some pastors collected money from her mother, promising to heal her of cancer. He stated this during an interview with Chude Jideonwo, Director-General at the Anambra State Project Monitoring and Management Office.According to him, his mother…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman, simply identified as Maryam Bobbo, her husband and four children have been reported to be missing after the terrorist attack on the Kaduna-bound train on Monday night. It had been reported that terrorists, on Monday night, bombed the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and attacked a train filled with passengers. According to a…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dispatch rider who was publicly humiliated and accused of kidnapping and hiding a baby in his courier box (read here) is innocent, the child’s mother has said. In a video recorded by the owner of the logistics business to clear her company’s name, the child’s mother spoke up revealing no one stole…
