LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-About 10 people have been confirmed dead and seven others injured following a recent Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast along the Bagega–Anka road in Anka LGA of Zamfara state. Reports indicate that the incident occurred around 6:15pm on Monday when a commercial Volkswagen Golf 3 Wagon conveying passengers from Bagega to…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ryan Mendes, the veteran captain who has played in all three of Cape Verde’s matches during its Cinderella rise to the knockout stage, is under police investigation in New Zealand after a Brazilian woman accused him of rape, according to Brazilian outlet Globo Esporte. The alleged incident occurred March 27 at…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For months, anti-migrant rhetoric had been building across South Africa. Then it reached Kaunga Nyirenda’s doorstep. In early June, two men gave the Malawian gardener, who lives in a Johannesburg suburb, a chilling ultimatum: leave now or face death. “They asked me: ‘When are you going to leave the country? We want…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Identity Management Commission {NIMC) has expressed its profound gratitude to His Excellency, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, for his visionary leadership and decisive action in signing this historic legislation into law. The NIMC in a statement signed by Kayode Adegoke, PhD Head, Corporate Communications National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) said…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A newly emerged terrorist group known as “Sai Mallam” has imposed monthly levies of N5 million on at least 10 rural communities in Kebbi State, threatening to seize residents’ farmlands and launch attacks if the demands are not met, SaharaReporters has learnt. Multiple community sources told SaharaReporters on Friday that the…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Security agencies last week arrested seven suspected commanders of Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) as they returned from the 2026 Hajj pilgrimage through the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina State, Minister of Interior Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo announced on Friday. Mr Tunji-Ojo disclosed the development at the…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2027 presidential ambition of Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso suffered a fresh setback on Friday after a Federal High Court in Lokoja set aside its earlier judgment directing the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to register the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, as a political party. DAILY POST reported that Justice…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several members of a private security outfit linked to Yoruba Nation campaigner Sunday Adeyemo, popularly known as Sunday Igboho, were reportedly injured after suspected cross-border bandits allegedly ambushed them during an operation in the Old Oyo National Park in Oyo State. The incident reportedly occurred while operatives of Iru Ekun, a security…