LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two suspected fraudsters, posing as prophets, have been arrested by the Lagos State Police Command for attempting to extort N600,000 from a 64-year-old woman in Lagos. According to the police, the incident happened on Friday when the suspects and their accomplice, still at large, offered the sexagenarian a ride and began to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Borno State Police Command said it has arrested a housewife, Fatima Abubakar, 25, for allegedly killing her husband, Goni Abbah, with poison. The Commissioner of Police, Mr Abdu Umar, who disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Maiduguri, said that the suspect was arrested on October 19 by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 37-year old woman, Udeogu Chinelo has been arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Anambra State Command for allegedly flogging her three-year-old grand daughter to death. The suspect, from Enugwu-Ukwu but married in Nibo, Awka South Local Government Area was arrested in a…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 29-year-old man identified as Sanni Gafar has been apprehended by a mob, who suspected him of being a terrorist, in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos State. Naija News reports that the police, however, rescued the suspected terrorist before the mob lynched him. This incident was confirmed on Monday in a post…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Though she is dressed aptly as a newlywed, she is different from other brides. Because Kshama Bindu has not married a man, or a woman – she has married herself. “People look weirdly at me. Like I have committed a crime,” she told Al Jazeera. Bindu’s “sologamy” – a marriage with self…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ondo State Police Command said it had arrested a woman identified as Funmi Mogbojuri for allegedly stealing a day-old baby. The police said the 35-year-old suspect stole the baby at the Sabo Area of Okitipupa, the headquarters of the Okitipupa Local Government Area of the state and took the baby to…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman found in possession of a human skull has been arrested by the police in Edo State. The police spokesperson in the state, Kontongs Bello, disclosed this on Thursday in Benin City, while briefing reporters on the activities of the command within the last two weeks. Mr Bello, a superintendent of…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 32-year-old house wife, Mrs Rahmat, has been killed by lightning following a heavy rainfall at Anguwar Abattoir in Abaji Area Council of the FCT. A resident of the area, Shuaibu Ibrahim, said the incident happened around 8pm on Friday when the lighting struck the woman who was fetching rain water from a…