LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in unnatural sex in the east African nation. The bill – colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda – was nullified five years ago on a technicality and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ethiopian Airlines plane was forced to make an emergency landing minutes after taking off in Senegal on Tuesday because an engine had caught fire, an airport spokesman said. None of the 90 passengers or crew were injured, spokesman Tidiane Tamba told Reuters. The airline confirmed on Twitter that its Boeing 767…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Frontline Maritime journalist ,Mr . Godfrey Bivbere narrowly escaped death on Lagos waters while traveling from Agbara to Liverpool in Apapa , Lagos. Bivbere, a staff of Vanguard Newspaper and 22 other passengers, on Wednesday morning , fortunately got rescued when speed boat they were travelling on suddenly capsized in the middle…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four homeless men were found beaten to death in Manhattan early Saturday morning in what police are calling a random attack. A fifth man is in critical condition. All five victims were men who suffered trauma to the head, police said. They appeared to have been sleeping when the attack happened just…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger State Police Command has said that a mob killed one Ahmed Bello, a Vehicle Inspector Officer, in Mariga Local Government Area of the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Adamu Usman, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Friday. Narrating the incident,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A traditional ruler in Abule-Ado, Amuwo-Odofin Local government area of Lagos, Chief Muritala Akogun, has been killed by some hoodlums. Chief Akogun died on Monday from the injury he suffered from the attacks by the thugs. The Nation learnt that the late traditional ruler was attacked on Saturday and suffered deep machete…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three armed robbery suspects were stoned to death by a mob at Ushongo town for carrying out an operation around Tse Dansa in Ushongu Local Government Area of Benue State on Sunday. The suspects incurred the wrath of the community when they trailed a vehicle coming from Cross River and attacked the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Rivers State have confirmed the death of a Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, yet unidentified pastor who was stabbed during a vigil at one the church’s parishes in Port Harcourt. Vanguard learned that the Redeemed Parish on Danjuma Street, Off Odili Road, in the Rivers State capital was having…
