LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian authorities imposed a communications blackout on Monday in several parts of Sokoto state as a crackdown against armed kidnappers in the country’s northwest region spreads. Gangs of armed men seeking lucrative ransom payments, known locally as bandits, have spread across northwestern Nigeria over the past year, kidnapping more than 1,000 students […]
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Haitian migrants had done well for themselves. Since leaving their country, many more than a decade ago, they had built lives in Chile, Brazil, Panama. They had homes and cars. They had stable jobs as bank tellers, welders, mine supervisors, gas station attendants. But they longed for the possibility of a […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mushin area of Lagos State was yesterday, thrown into commotion as some armed gang invaded some streets, inflicting injuries on residents and destroying property worth millions of naira. It was gathered one person died in the mayhem that forced churches within the affected communities to close for fear of being attacked. Information […]
Sep 20 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A human rights lawyer, Malcolm Emokiniovo Omirhobo has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari for refusing to licence and grant him and other Nigerians permission to bear AK-47 assault rifles to defend themselves against any attack by Fulani terrorists and bandits. In the suit with number: FHC/ABJ/CS/1078/2021 filed on Friday, September 17, 2021, before […]
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three policemen have been killed by gunmen in Onitsha, Anambra State, while two persons identified to be civilians sustained bullet wounds in the attack. A source in Onitsha said the attack occurred at Ezeiweka road in the commercial city, and that a patrol van belonging to the police was also set ablaze […]
Sep 20 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An angry mob on Saturday attacked the divisional police headquarters in the Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State and killed 13 suspected bandits whose corpses were burnt to ashes. The bandits were said to be among those who invaded the area around 8pm on Friday, killing two persons, including a shop […]
Sep 20 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four occupants of a Toyota Camry car crushed by a 40ft containerized truck were rescued alive from the battered car. The Federal Road Safety Corps Lagos Sector Command in a statement sighted by NewsRangers said the crash occurred around 1838hrs at Ojuelegba inward Stadium on Funsho Williams Avenue, adding that it involved […]
Sep 20 2021 | Posted in
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Acting Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Mohammed Bello-Koko has raised the alarm that the Tin-Can Island Port, Onne port, Delta, and Calabar ports are currently collapsing and require huge funds to repair them. In a statement issued on Sunday by the NPA General Manager, Corporate and Strategic Communications, […]
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LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has paid tribute to the new mayor of Johannesburg, following his death in a car crash aged 46. Jolidee Matongo had been campaigning with Mr Ramaphosa before the accident. His vehicle collided with a van while trying to avoid a pedestrian who had run on to the […]
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Algeria on Sunday buried Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the North African country’s longest-serving president, at a cemetery for its independence heroes, but without the honours accorded to his predecessors. Bouteflika died on Friday aged 84, after a career which took him from being the world’s youngest foreign minister to one of its oldest heads […]
