LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty gunmen reportedly raided the Kawu Community in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), kidnapping 23 people, including former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ward Chairman, Alhaji Alhassan Sidi Kawu. New Telegraph reports that the abduction occurred in the early morning hours of Thursday, February 29. The attackers, who…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 people have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a Catholic church in north-eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday. It took place during Sunday worship in Essakane village in Oudalan province – close to the border with Mali. Few details have been given. A church official indicated…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This was the day that President Joe Biden and his team had feared for more than three months, the day that relatively low-level attacks by Iranian proxy groups on U.S. troops in the Middle East turned deadly and intensified the pressure on the president to respond in kind. With three U.S. service…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have criticised former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, for mobilising friends to contribute N50 million towards the ransom for the release of the five remaining Mansoor Al-Kadriyar sisters kidnapped in Abuja. Pantami announced on Sunday via X account that an undisclosed friend volunteered to raise N50 million, following…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has decried the rampaging gunmen attack in Aguata local government area of Anambra State which claimed the lives of two police officers and a vigilante. Obi, who expressed regret of the attacks which also resulted in the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed groups have killed at least 160 people in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said on Monday. The toll marked a sharp rise from the initial figure reported by the army Sunday evening of just 16 dead in a region plagued for several years by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Joint Task Force on City Sanitation arrested 19 hoodlums for attacking the Abuja Metropolitan Management Council (AMMC) in Wuse, Abuja on Monday, December 18. The hoodlums stormed the premises in the early hours of Monday over the demolition of a Mechanic Village in Kubwa, by the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram insurgents have attacked the convoy of Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni along Maiduguri-Dramaturu Road, killing two policemen and injuring two others. The attack took place on Saturday after the governor attended the 24th convocation of the University of Maiduguri, Borno State. According to an eyewitness,…