LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 50 people have been beheaded in northern Mozambique by militant Islamists, state media report. The militants turned a football pitch in a village into an “execution ground”, where they decapitated and chopped bodies, other reports said. Several people were also beheaded in another village, state media reported. The beheadings…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected members of the extremist Boko Haram sect have shot dead five persons believed to be humanitarian workers. The terrorist group publicized the development via a viral video it published on social media Wednesday. The gunmen who carried out the killing said their victims were aid workers working for nongovernmental organisations. The…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is brewing tension among the hierarchy of the Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP), the two major terror groups operating in the North East, The Nation has reliably gathered. A reliable source close to some of the repented Boko Haram Commanders, said that there is a…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bahrain executed on Saturday three men convicted in two separate cases, one involving the killing of a police officer and the other the killing of a mosque imam, the public prosecutor said in a statement. Rights groups identified two of the men as Shi’ite activists Ali al-Arab and Ahmed al-Malali, who were…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday condemned the silence of US President Donald Trump’s administration on Saudi Arabia’s mass execution of 37 people convicted of terrorism. “After a wink at the dismembering of a journalist, not a whisper from the Trump administration when Saudi Arabia beheads 37 men in one…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Cameroon has arrested four soldiers suspected of shooting dead two women and two children in the country’s far north where its army is battling jihadist group Boko Haram, two security sources told Reuters. A video of the incident, which has been shared tens of thousands of times on Twitter since it emerged…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iraq has executed a dozen members of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) on death row, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s office said on Friday, after he vowed a swift response to the armed group’s killing of eight captives. The executions were carried out on Thursday,…