LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The death toll from recent riots in South Africa has risen to 276, and police are investigating 168 cases for murder, a cabinet minister said on Wednesday. The unrest started as protests over former president Jacob Zuma’s jailing two weeks ago in his home province of KwaZulu-Natal. But it quickly escalated into…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s well after midnight on a Saturday morning, but traffic is as thick as rush hour along a four-block industrial stretch in East New York, Brooklyn. Scantily clad women walk mid-block, their heels click-clacking on the asphalt as they move from car to car, leaning into driver’s side windows to entice the…
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed raiders killed at least 35 people and torched homes in five villages in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, police said on Saturday, in the latest deadly attack to hit the violence-torn region. Local residents said up to 43 villagers were killed in the raid late on Thursday. “Thirty-five people were killed by…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jacob Zuma, former South African president, turned himself in to police on Wednesday to begin 15 months in jail for contempt of court, the culmination of a long legal drama seen as a test of the country’s ability to enforce the rule of law. Police spokesperson Lirandzu Themba confirmed in a statement…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Cross River has arrested the Pastor of United Evangelical Church, Michael Bassey, 45, for unlawful possession of a human skull. It also apprehended 25 other suspects for various offences committed in the state. Briefing newsmen on Tuesday in Calabar, Commissioner of Police in the state, Mr Sikiru Akande,…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos House of Assembly has passed an amended version of the Criminal Justice Law in the state barring police from parading suspects before the media. The bill was passed yesterday at a sitting presided over by the Deputy Speaker, Wasiu Eshilokun-Sanni, on behalf of the Speaker, Mudashiru Obasa. Section 9 (a)…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Enugu Police Command said yesterday it would put in required efforts to unravel circumstances behind the missing and killing of a soya milk seller in Mkpologwu, Enugu East Local Government Area of the state. Confusion had enveloped the New Haven Extension in Mkpologwu on Wednesday as the missing woman was found…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several people were killed and others injured on Friday in the southern German city of Wuerzburg, police said, with media reporting a knife attack. “The attacker was overpowered after the police used firearms. There are several injured as well as fatalities,” said police on Twitter, without giving details on the suspect’s motives….