LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have abducted 12 Assistant Superintendents of Police on their way to Zamfara from Borno state for a special assignment, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported. BBC reported that the police officers were on their way to Zamfara to conduct a special operation when they were waylaid and abducted by the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Although a UN helicopter undertook a mission to Banki in Borno State Tuesday, it was not shot down nor did it crash, the Nigerian Air Force said in a statement Tuesday. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported an helicopter incident in Banki, a border community with Cameroon, with a humanitarian worker suggesting the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram Terrorist group has released a new video a few days after the military authorities in Nigeria declared him wanted. According to Shekau in the new video, he dared the military, declaring that he and his fighters can’t be arrested by the military and even if…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was heavy gridlock along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos as commercial motorcycle riders (popularly called Okada) clashed with officials of the Lagos State Task force on Tuesday morning. The Cele-Express to Mile 2 axis of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway was mostly affected as Motorists stayed in traffic for hours while pedestrians ran helter…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has shared a video which captured moment he discovered weed in yams he was asked to deliver abroad. According to the man, a friend asked him to make the delivery but he discovered the weed in the yam after he decided to go through what he was asked to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent #EndSARS protest in Nigeria may go down in history as the loudest wakeup call since the civil war, for the country to be restructured. The President/CEO, World Stage Limited, Mr Segun Adeleye who said this in his welcome address at the virtual WorldStage Economic Summit 2020 with the theme, ‘New…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mali and Tunisia qualified for the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations finals on Tuesday to follow in the footsteps of title holders Algeria, Senegal and hosts Cameroon. Another 19 places will be up for grabs during the final two matchdays between March 22 and 30 with record seven-time champions Egypt among those…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s president will do what it takes to prevent a repeat of demonstrations against police brutality last month that led to unrest in which dozens of protesters and police were killed and more than 200 buildings torched, the police minister said. Protests against an elite police force, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, or…
