LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Kogi State Police Command has arrested one suspect following another attack on the family home of the suspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The suspect, identified as Jose Suberu, was reportedly apprehended at the scene of the attack in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area, on Tuesday. Confirming the development to…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ministry of Housing and Urban Development has officially taken delivery of a 753-unit housing estate formerly owned by the embattled former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele. Disclosing this in a statement on Tuesday, the ministry said that the property was handed over by the Economic and Financial…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The body of a middle-aged woman has been recovered from a two-storey building with a penthouse that collapsed in the Ebute Metta area of Lagos. This comes shortly after the remains of man were recovered from the rubble of the collapsed building. The building located along Herbert Macaulay Way in Ebute Metta…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Australian Federal Police AFP) officers have uncovered a massive shipment of cocaine, after they used a remote controlled robot to seize the 200kilogram package of drugs (pictured) which were found stashed inside the hull of a ship, in Port Melbourne in Victoria AFP Commander Richard Chin said illegal packages were regularly stashed…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The lifeless body of a man who jumped into the lagoon from the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge in Lagos State has been recovered. The male adult was suspected to have committed suicide on Tuesday, the Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) said in a statement. “The victim’s body which was recovered Thursday morning,…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten members of a single family were swept away in a river surge in Malaysia, with seven bodies found just under 25 kilometers from where they had been swimming, a senior police official said Tuesday. The tragedy happened last Friday at the Jeram Mawar waterfall located deep in a forest in the…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Debris recovered from the submersible that catastrophically imploded while on a voyage to see the Titanic wreckage last week contained “presumed human remains,” the U.S. Coast Guard said. Salvaged pieces of the Titan vessel were unloaded from the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland,…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bodies of four people killed in a late December helicopter crash in the Gulf of Mexico have been recovered, company officials confirmed Tuesday. The helicopter crashed at around 8:40 a.m. Dec. 29 while carrying a pilot and three oil platform workers, according to the U.S. Coast Guard’s 8th District. The aircraft…