LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian army says it has found two more of the female students abducted by Boko Haram militants from a secondary school more than eight years ago. There was global outrage when Islamists seized nearly 300 girls in Nigeria’s north-eastern town of Chibok in 2014. Most of the victims have either been…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 46 people, believed to be migrants, have been found dead in an abandoned lorry on the outskirts of San Antonio, Texas. A fire official said 16 people including four children had also been taken to hospital. The survivors were “hot to the touch” and suffering from heat stroke and heat…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A South African snake rescuer has described a difficult encounter with a cobra after he was called to a home in Reservoir Hills in Durban. Nick Evans, a reptile educator and conservationist, ended up being face to face with an angry Mozambique spitting cobra—a highly venomous snake native to Africa. The snake…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Commissioner of Police, Sunday Babaji, has explained how three schoolchildren who went missing from the Star Child Heritage Academy in Kabusa, Abuja, were found. The children’s father, Sunday Ani, had confirmed the return of his children to THE WHISTLER on Monday. Sunday Marvelous, 8, Sunday Alex, 6, and…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nollywood Actress Takor Veronica has been found dead in a hotel room in Benue State one week after celebrating her birthday. Veronica was found dead in a hotel room at Nyinma area of Makurdi, Benue State, just after celebrating her birthday on March 12. Circumstances surrounding her death are still sketchy but…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 22-year-old girl simply identified as Shakirat, was found dead in Iwo, Osun State, with some vital parts of her missing. Sources said the lady was dumped by suspected ritualists at the back of her mother’s shop at Oke-Oore, Iwo. It was gathered that the lady left the house on Wednesday morning…
Managing Director of Brikari Nigeria Limited, waste management contractor of Bayelsa State Government, Mr. Bright Ayebakari, has disclosed that no week passes without officials discovering corpses of little children, severed body parts, arms and ammunition in refuse receptacles in the state. Ayebakari, who spoke to NDV in Yenagoa, on refuse disposal and challenges in the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH(NEWSRANGERS)-A girl who went missing more than two years ago at the age of 4 was found alive by police on Monday, hidden underneath a staircase in a New York home. Paislee Shultis, now 6, was found at a residence in Saugerties, about 45 miles south of Albany, on Monday night after authorities…
