LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rashidat Hamza is in despair. All but one of her six children are among the nearly 300 students abducted from their school in Nigeria’s conflict-battered northwest. More than two days after her children — ages 7 to 18 — went to school in remote Kuriga town only to be herded away by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In a truly gut-wrenching twist of fate, a pregnant woman and innocent children tragically lost their lives in a car crash that could have been prevented if the guilty party had only spared a thought for their safety. This heart-rending incident, which unfolded in the Ago, Ikota neighborhood of Lagos, stirred up…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Bauchi State has arrested a 24-year-old woman, Furera Abubakar, over alleged murder of her four-day-old stepchild at Bantu village in Ningi Local Government Area of the state. This was contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the Command, SP Ahmed Wakil, on Tuesday in Bauchi. He said…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two siblings, Godwin Enahoro and Rosemary Enahoro, were on Friday arraigned before a Tinubu Magistrates’ Court sitting in Lagos Island for allegedly defrauding a woman by obtaining $98,700, which is equivalent to N74.2m under the pretence of helping her recover her property. The defendants are facing 10 counts of conspiracy, impersonation, obtaining,…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Lagos State on Friday arrested a 49-year-old woman over alleged theft of a day-old baby from a hospital. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday. Hundeyin said that the Ojokoro Police Division carried out the arrest on…
LAGOS JUNE 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old man was arrested in Piet Retief , South Africa on Thursday, June 15, after allegedly shooting and killing five members of his family. The victims include a grandmother, three children, and a 22-year-old woman. The incident occurred at around 6:15 p.m. on Thursday. According to reports, a family member returned…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman thought to be dead by her relatives made a miraculous return to the land of the living at her own wake. Relatives of Bella Montoya, 76, were paying their respects to her at her wake on June 9 hours after she was pronounced dead by hospital staff at Martin Icaza…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman allegedly killed her two children and stabbed her husband after he returned home at midnight before attempting to take her own life in Rongai, Kajiado County, Kenya. Christine Karimi, who was admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), in critical condition, is accused of stabbing her husband, Rodgers Andere after…
