LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Angolan police have fired tear gas in the capital Luanda and other cities, like Benguela and Namibe, as thousands of protesters took to the streets a week after clashes over a recent fuel hike killed at least five people. President Joao Lourenco on June 8 fired the economic coordination minister and replaced…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Minister of Communications, Major General Tajudeen Olanrewaju, has described as too weighty to be ignored by the government, the allegations by Niger Delta ex-militant leader, Mujahid Asari Dokubo, that the Nigerian Army, Navy and some cabals are behind 99 per cent of the oil theft in the country. Former minister noted…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Kano State have arrested a 19-year-old man, Nafiu Sulaiman, for allegedly “kidnapping himself” and collecting N365,000 ransom from his uncle under whom he works in a cement shop in Garindau village in Warawa LGA. Confessing to the crime when he was paraded by the police, the suspect said he…
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…