LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have been reportedly killed in the early hours of Tuesday as police dispersed a procession of members of the group to commemorate Ashura day. The Shiites are demanding the release of their leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention since Dec. 2015….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)- At least one person was killed and five others injured in Johannesburg on Sunday, police said, after security forces clashed with looters in the latest outbreak of xenophobic violence. South Africa’s biggest city and other areas were hit by a surge of attacks against businesses owned by migrants in the last…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bickering between the Nigerian Army and the police over the circumstances that led to the killing of three policemen and two civilians during the escape of suspected Taraba kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Bala Wadume, earlier in the month disrupted the smooth operations of the panel set up by the Defence Headquarters (DHQ)…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun State yesterday arrested two brothers, 29-year-old Sunday Durosinmi Onikoyi and 20-year-old Felix Durosinmi Onikoyi, for making purchases with fake currency. The brothers who reside at No 30 Akala Street Idi-Oro Mushin Lagos, were arrested following a distress call from a resident of Gas-line area of Ijoko Ota. Police…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-It is reported that the kidnappers of the mother of former Nigerian international, Samson Siasia, have reduced their demand for ransom for Beauty Siasia to N30 million from N50 million. It is reported that the kidnappers of the mother of former Nigerian international, Samson Siasia, have reduced their demand for ransom for…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Four suspected kidnappers who reportedly collected N3.5m, a carton of schnapps, 30 litres of palm oil and 10 tubers of yam before their victims were released have been arrested. The Police Public Relations Officer in Ogun State, Abimbola Oyeyemi, disclosed this on Wednesday . The kidnappers were reported to have abducted three…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Cult members have hacked to death a 36-year-old man, Bolaji AbdulSalam, for reporting them to the police in Ilorin, Kwara State. AbdulSalam incurred the wrath of the cultists, after he found them smoking Indian hemp in front of his family house at Alfa Yahaya area of Ita-Amon in Ilorin township. The cult members…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police have re-arrested a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, two weeks after he escaped from the custody of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT). The IRT operatives they came under attack from soldiers attached to Battalion 93, Takum, Taraba State, as they conveyed Wadume from the scene of his arrest. The attack led…