LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Director of Defence Information, Major General Rabe Abubakar (retd.), and his wife have reportedly been abducted by suspected terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits, along the Matazu axis of Katsina State. According to information obtained by SaharaReporters, the retired senior military officer and his wife were travelling to Katsina State…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 60-year-old daily wage worker in Tamil Nadu beheaded his wife and another man she was said to be in a relationship with, before surrendering to police carrying their severed heads in bags. The twin murders were committed early on Thursday in Kallakurichi district when the accused, identified as Kolanchi, allegedly caught…
LAGOS MAY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Saudi Arabian authorities have reportedly arrested two women believed to be the wife and mother of Ado Aliero, one of Nigeria’s most wanted bandit kingpins. The women were apprehended in Medina, where they had allegedly been living under false identities. Sources familiar with the operation said the arrests were the result of…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peru’s former First Lady Nadine Heredia requested asylum at the Brazilian Embassy in Lima on Tuesday, the same day she and her husband, former President Ollanta Humala, were sentenced to 15 years in prison on money laundering charges. The embassy informed Peru that Heredia had arrived Tuesday morning, according to a statement…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An inmate killed his wife as she visited him in a prison in eastern Germany, prosecutors said on Friday. The Thursday incident occurred at the Burg prison in Magdeburg, west of Berlin. The 37-year-old prisoner was reportedly alone with his 35-year-old wife in a room set up for visitors of long-term inmates….
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I write this from a point of pain and gratitude. Pain because of the death of a hardworking and honest man, Rotimi Olaleye, who is both a great father, as attested to by his children who he has been taking care of single handedly since his wife died about five years ago,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice Principal of Dugja Bayan Tasha Junior Secondary School in Biu Local Government Area of Borno State, Mallam Aliyu Mohammed, his wife, and three children have lost their lives in a fire outbreak in their house. According to available information in the media space, the devastating fire outbreak occurred in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four hooded heavily armed men suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the wife of retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Hakeem Odumosu, from her residence in the Arepo area of Ogun State. Eyewitnesses reported that the kidnappers, executing a well-coordinated attack, intercepted the wife of the Ex Police AIG as she…