LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen, Saturday stormed Banigo Isile-Ogono community in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, shot sporadically and abducted several persons in a gory operation. Some of the abducted victims are identified as Sunny Hart, Thomas Allison and Theophilus Ibiama, among several others. Chairman of Bonny Local Government Council, David Irimagha and…
LAGOS JUNE 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be named policeman on Sunday morning allegedly opened fire on his colleagues at Onikan, killing some of them. The yet-to-be named officer went berserk around 5am following a disagreement with other members of his team, The Nation is reporting. It was gathered that the trigger happy cop hijacked their operational vehicle…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in the agrarian community of Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday night following the death of a police officer and his wife. The deceased policeman who was attached to Akungba Division of the Ondo Police command was said to have allegedly shot his…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers and men of Nigeria Customs Service Ogun State command supported by personnel of the Nigerian Army on patrol have been attacked by daredevil persons suspected to be rice smugglers in Ogun State. In a press statement issued by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Maiwada the attack took place at 02:30…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in the Dutse area of Abuja on Saturday as a police inspector, John Markus, killed his colleague and later committed suicide. The incident which occurred very early in the morning at the Dutse Police Divisional Headquarters also left another police officer injured. The Commissioner of Police in the Federal Capital…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Five policemen attached to the Akinpelu Police Division, have been detained for the murder of a 27-year-old fun-seeker, Maliki Mohammed, at a club on Balogun Street, Oshodi, Lagos. The cops are Inspectors Orubu Olusola, Apalowo Ola, Kasai Sule and Sergeants Momoh Ogwuche and Adoga Collins. Sunday PUNCH gathered that the police team…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people died in a shooting outside a Walmart in Duncan, Oklahoma, when a man shot his wife and her boyfriend before killing himself, police said Tuesday. Wbillado R. Varela Jr., 43, shot his wife, Rebecca N. Vescio Varela, 31, and her boyfriend Aubrey P. Perkins, 39, in the store parking lot on Monday, authorities said….
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium on Thursday at Trinity area of Apapa, Lagos when a policeman shot dead a tanker driver. Trouble started when the policeman allegedly demanded for a toll of N1000 from the tanker driver who said he could only afford N500. Our reporter gathered that the refusal of the driver did…