LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior Russian general has been killed after a home-made explosive device ripped through a parked car in the town of Balashikha, east of Moscow, according to the Investigative Committee, which probes major crimes in the country. Authorities named Lieutenant-General Yaroslav Moskalik, deputy head of the main operational directorate of the military’s…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives attached to the Commissioner of Police Special Squad 2, headed by Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Joel Ugowe Igbinazaka, have arrested a wanted cultist, who allegedly led the squad that murdered and beheaded a police officer some months ago in Ijanikin area of Lagos State. The suspect, Ehis Job Philips, was…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family and friends of a lecturer in the University of Ibadan, Professor Opeyemi Ajewole, who was murdered in Ibadan, Oyo State, on Monday night, have continued to express shock and disbelief, with tears strewing their faces. The incident has also continued to generate comments, as people wonder on what could have caused…
By Fadaka Louis LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The social scene has been abuzz by the news of patricide (a son killing his father) that occurred on the night of the 20th December, 2022, at their residence in Ayobo, a border town between Ogun and Lagos State. Different theories (mostly untrue) as to what led up to…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The proprietor of Tana Suites, Olugbenga Owolabi, who was killed by kidnappers in Ogbomoso had reportedly arrived the community from the US same day he was abducted. A friend of the deceased, Olukayode Olawepo, who disclosed this said the father of four and his family are based in Maryland, U.S. Owolabi and and his…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police forensics investigators have identified bodies of two persons murdered and buried in a shallow grave in northeastern Thailand as a Nigerian man and a Vietnamese woman. A wild mushroom harvester discovered their bodies in a forest at Chok Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima on the evening of July 28, 2022. The man…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16th (newsrangers)-The Operatives of the Nigeria Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have arrested four suspects in connection with the abduction and gruesome killing of the late Mrs Nneka Nwanyi-Sunday Emeh Kalu who was earlier reported missing and later found dead in a cassava farm on 29th August, 2021 in Ngugworo Community in Nguzu…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There were drama, anger, confusion, and protest at the morgue of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State when activists, a lawyer, and family members went to demand the corpse of an allegedly murdered student activist, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as Omomeewa. Omomeewa was attacked along the Egbeda Igando Road a few hours…