LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Five policemen attached to the Akinpelu Police Division, have been detained for the murder of a 27-year-old fun-seeker, Maliki Mohammed, at a club on Balogun Street, Oshodi, Lagos. The cops are Inspectors Orubu Olusola, Apalowo Ola, Kasai Sule and Sergeants Momoh Ogwuche and Adoga Collins. Sunday PUNCH gathered that the police team…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWRANGERS)-Less than 25 minutes after unknown gun men shot dead the Catholic Priest, Rev Fr. Paul Offu last Thursday, his bank account was emptied by a yet to be identified person who was said to have made frantic and frequent withdrawals until the last money was withdrawn, according to a reliable source…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Politician and The General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare on Sunday, has reacted to the murder of Mrs. Funke Olakunrin, the daughter of Afenifere leader, Pa Reuben Fasoranti. While delivering his Sunday sermon in his church in Lagos, Bakare wondered how Nigeria had found itself in a…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)— Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than 430,000 New Zealand dollars ($288,000) to 169 gun owners…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The latest development over the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Ndubisi-Chukwu, Deputy Director-General (DDG), Chartered Insurance Institute of Nigeria (CIIN), who was reported dead in her sleep in Emperor Hotel, in Johannesburg, South Africa, has taken a twist as an autopsy report from the country’s Department of Home Affairs revealed the unexpected. The…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in the ancient town of Isua, headquarters of Akoko South East local government area of Ondo State, on Friday, when the 13-year-old son of a fulani herdsman, Suleiman, who was earlier declared missing, was found dead in a river, where he was allegedly dumped by suspected assailants. The father…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWRANGERS)-Oladipo Oyefemi, 33, a construction worker and graduate of Geology and Minning from the University of Jos, has been arrested by the Police in Jos for allegedly killing a 24-year-old woman, Patience Musa. Oyefemi, a resident of Millionaires Quaters, Jos, was said to have picked the 24-year-old Musa at the West of…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Dutch court said on Wednesday it has jurisdiction to hear a damages suit brought against Royal Dutch Shell by four widows of activists executed by the Nigerian government in 1995. In a preliminary decision, judges at the Hague District Court said they would allow the suit to go forward, a rare…