Unknown persons suspected to be grave robbers have invaded a private residence, exhumed and whisked away the corpse of an octogenarian landlord few hours after he was buried inside his room in Benin City. Consequently, operatives of the Zone 5 Police Headquarters in Benin have launched a manhunt for the perpetrators with a view to…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten guns, 400 cutlasses, 70 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 400 pieces of live cartridges and 13 pieces of 9-MM ammunition were among latest recoveries from the Diamond Hotel, the Ibadan hideout of the wanted former Chairman of Oyo Park Management Disciplinary Committee, Mukaila Lamidi, aka Auxiliary. The guns recovered include one pump…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Canadian couple was killed at their home in Ontario during a dispute with their landlord Saturday afternoon, authorities said. The shooting suspect was also killed. Hamilton Police are investigating the double homicide in the city’s Stoney Creek neighborhood. Officers arrived then at the residence around 5:40 p.m. where the couple, identified…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Lagos State Police Command are currently working to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman and her two daughters in a shop around PPL, Ijagun Okokomaiko area of the state. The deceased, whose identities could not be immediately ascertained, were said to have locked themselves inside…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A four-man gang of armed robbers, on Friday afternoon, robbed a businessman $11million cash at the Oke-Sokori axis of Abeokuta metropolis, Ogun State capital. The robbers, all clad in black T-shirt and Jean trousers, also wore black facemasks, brandished their riffles on the metropolitan street in an operation that lasted about three…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, on Tuesday as about 35 pupils of Fakunle Comprehensive School, Osogbo, were hospitalised after inhaling teargas fired by some riot policemen. The pupils who became unconscious after inhaling the teargas were rushed to two different hospitals for urgent medical attention. As the news…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Afrobeat musician, Seun Kuti, will be unable to attend his concert in Majorca Island, Spain, today (Saturday) as the Nigeria Police Force continue to detain him, all in a bid to find incriminating evidence on him. SaharaReporters had on Friday reported that the Lagos State Chief Magistrate in Yaba, Mrs Adeola Olatunbosun,…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenneth, a 29-year-old male, was arrested with two severed heads in a bag; the victims were reportedly his mother and father, who he had murdered for monetary ritual purposes. Residents of Kwara State turned out in large numbers to watch as an angry crowd apprehended the child and beat him severely before…