LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Government officials and residents said overnight ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have killed several people and caused hundreds to flee their homes. “Several lives were lost and properties damaged due to this attack,” head of the Oromia Police Commission, Alemayehu Ejigu, told the state broadcaster ETV on…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A judge of Akwa Ibom State High Court, Justice Okon Okon, escaped death today as kidnappers from Rivers State attacked him in the Court premises in Uyo, threatening to kill him for sentencing them to death. Immediately after the Presiding Judge pronounced the death sentence, the condemned criminals rained abuses on him…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists overran a military base in northeast Nigeria after a ferocious firefight, security sources said Sunday, the second major assault on the country’s forces in two days. The militants invaded a base holding hundreds of soldiers in Yobe state — where they abducted over 100 girls from a school earlier…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Operations, who is also in charge of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Ekiti state, Mr. Habila Joshua, said he never ordered his men to attack members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He also said he was not aware of any attack on the state governor, Ayo…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 45 people died in an attack on a village in northern Nigeria, a police official told Reuters on Sunday, the latest in a string of incidents underscoring insecurity in parts of the country. President Muhammadu Buhari won Nigeria’s 2015 elections partly on promises to bring security to Africa’s largest economy…
LAGOS APRIL10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely three days after the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) North-West zonal rally in Katsina, some hoodlums suspected to be “thugs of the ruling APC” stormed the presidential campaign office of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar in Katsina and destroyed property worth millions of naira. The suspected APC thugs destroyed no fewer than eight…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Less than three days after the swap of 82 Chibok girls on May 7, 2017, and a payment of €3 million ransom for the release of five commanders from DSS custody, a video of Shuaibu Moni, one of the swapped Boko Haram commanders went viral where he issued threats to Nigerian state…
LAGOS APRIL3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- A Boko Haram attack in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed at least 15 people and wounded 83, a military spokesman said on Monday, in the biggest strike since the government said it was in talks with the Islamist militant group. The military said the incident occurred late on Sunday and included…