LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anti-government protesters in Kenya have returned to the streets stepping up demands for President William Ruto to resign, despite his recent concessions. One man has been shot dead during a confrontation between protesters and security forces on the outskirts of the capital, a BBC reporter on the ground says. In central Nairobi,…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds took to the streets of Niger’s capital on Saturday to demand the departure of U.S. troops, after the ruling junta further shifted its strategy by ending a military accord with the United States and welcoming Russian military instructors. Marching arm in arm through central Niamey, the crowd waved Nigerien flags in…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 school children in Nigeria last Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community told CNN on Wednesday. “They called me from a hidden number…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits, who abducted 16 residents of the Gonin Gora area of the Kaduna metropolis, have demanded a ransom of N40 trillion for their release. Bandits on Wednesday 28 February attacked the Gonin-Gora community, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis in the Chikun Local Government Area, kidnapping 16 residents. On Monday, leaders of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly abducted a corpse along with all the family members conveying it from Lagos to Nsukka in Enugu State. Vanguard reports that the remains of late Mr Ugwuanyi Israel from Ameze Owerre, Umabor community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, was being conveyed home by family members when…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man, who has been identified as Safiu Kareem, has raised an alarm regarding the abduction of his father, Akeem Kareem, and an undisclosed number of individuals in the Ofosu area along the Benin-Ore Expressway. Safiu told The PUNCH correspondent that the bandits, who abducted the victims on Wednesday afternoon, were…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Widows of military officers who died in the Hercules C130 military jet that crashed in Lagos on December 26, 1992, have called on the Nigerian military and the Federal Government to pay them their late husbands’ entitlements. The PUNCH reports that the military-transport plane crashed soon after takeoff from Lagos, killing all…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The criminal elements who abducted Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom for their release. The victims were abducted on Tuesday night, January 2, 2024, in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. According to the Daily Trust, the bandits later…