LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, alongside his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, has been denied bail and remanded in custody by a United Kingdom court over allegation bordering on organ trafficking. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the UK Metropolitan Police formally charged Ekweremadu and his wife with conspiracy to facilitate the…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British authorities say they have rescued a child who was targeted in a disturbing international organ-harvesting plot. A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been charged with conspiracy over a plan to bring the child to the U.K. in order to harvest their organs, London’s Metropolitan Police announced Thursday. No details…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ondo State Police Command on Wednesday said it has arrested one Tosin Omoniyi who was alleged to have attempted to rape a woman after robbing her family of valuables in their house at Idanre community in the Idanre Local Government Area of the state. According to the police, the suspect entered…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oyo State police operatives has intensified manhunt for the adoptors of Bishop Rt. Rev Aderogba of Jebba Diocese, Kwara State in Company of his Wife and driver. The Police in an e statement signed by Oyo State Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) SP. Adewale Osifeso for Oyo state Commissioner of Police affirmed…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 41-year-old Nigerian, Obinna Igbokwe, on Wednesday night in Texas, United States, shot his wife, Tangela Igbokwe, killed her mother and fled to North Texas with their three-month-old son, Mansa, before finally killing himself. Igbokwe lived in Spring, Montgomery County of Dallas, Texas. According to the U.S. police, Obinna Igbokwe and his…
Former President Barack Obama has tested for positive for COVID-19, he announced on Twitter on Sunday. Former First Lady Michelle Obama has tested negative so far, Obama said. “I just tested positive for COVID. I’ve had a scratchy throat for a couple days, but am feeling fine otherwise,” the former president tweeted. “Michelle and I…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A police officer simply identified as Sergeant Bello has shot and killed at least six mobile police officers in Maiduguri, Borno State capital. The incident happened inside the police college quarters of Borno Police headquarters in Maiduguri, according to sources. A senior police officer told our correspondent that the errant officer is…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man has been arrested after he mistakenly stabbed his mother to death at Zawiyya Tudunwada, Kontagora, Niger state. The man was reportedly fighting his wife when his mother stepped in to intervene. The husband then allegedly reached for a knife and attempted to stab his wife, but he mistakenly stabbed his…