LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS )-For Olajide Ayorinde, a worker with the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company attached to the Imo unit in Abeokuta, Ogun State, he would not forget in a hurry Thursday, April 23; day residents of Isale Igbein/Grammar School area of Abeokuta attacked him for distributing electricity bills during lockdown. The state, including Lagos…
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian community in South Africa has confirmed the killing of one of its members, Ikenna Otugo. This comes amid tension surrounding xenophobic attacks on foreigners in South Africa. Mr Okonkwo said that the 41-year-old victim was a native of Nimo in Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra. Mr Otugo was allegedly…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The homicide detectives section from Surulere Division of the Lagos State Police Command has arrested one Stella Peter, 23, for stabbing, Mr Bala Haruna, 25, to death. The suspect reportedly stabbed Haruna because he refused to release money for their baby’s birthday party. According to the Police Public Relations Officer ( PRO),…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A priest was stabbed during a live-streamed morning mass Friday at Canada’s biggest church, Saint Joseph’s Oratory in Montreal, police said. The suspect was arrested at the Roman Catholic basilica shortly after the attack in front of 50 people and a television audience around 8:40 am (1240 GMT), while priest Claude Grou was…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A football player, Salisu Muhammad, 18, of Yakasai quarters, Kano Municipal local government, has allegedly stabbed his own coach over argument on football. The deceased, Mujitapha Musa, 30, also of Yakasai quarters, was said to have passed away on the way to Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, following the injury he sustained in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pandemonium broke out in the early hours of yesterday, at Aswani Textile Market, Isolo, Lagos State, when two unidentified men stabbed themselves to death during a brawl. Though there were two versions as to how the incident happened, an eyewitness said during a heated argument one of the men grabbed a knife…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 38-year-old mother of three has been killed by her lover, Osaremwinda Omobude Idumwonyi, 46, after he allegedly found male condoms inside her handbag in Benin City, the Edo State capital. It was gathered that the victim identified as Gladys Okoh, who had been separated with her husband, was stabbed with a…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mother of two identified as Sokari West was allegedly stabbed to death yesterday by her husband during a fight in their house in Buguma, Asari-Toru Local Government Area of Rivers State over the purported refusal of the wife to prepare a meal for her husband. According to Daily Sun, the 33-year-old…
