LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three residents of Takum town in Taraba State have lost their lives following a severe windstorm that struck the area twice in two days. The first incident, according to a resident, Mallam Maiwada Takum, occurred on Tuesday evening, causing extensive damage to residential, commercial, school and office buildings. Takum said the weather…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than four people were killed Tuesday after a U.S. convoy was attacked in Nigeria. The attackers “murdered two police operatives and two staff of the U.S. consulate and set their bodies and their vehicles ablaze,” Anambra Police Command told CNN. Police spokesman Ikenga Tochukwu told AFP that the gunmen…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An attack near a synagogue in Tunisia killed two security officers and two visitors on Tuesday the government said amid an annual pilgrimage to the island of Djerba that draws hundreds of Jews from Europe and Israel. The attack was staged by a guard at a naval installation on Djerba who used…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Imo State Police Command on Monday Morning killed three gunmen who attacked the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission in the state. The gunmen also killed one policeman and injured one in the gun duel that lasted for an hour and kept the residents of Owerri, the state capital awake…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The joy of indigenes of Iseyin in Oke Ogun area of Oyo State who were celebrating the end of Ramadan was short-lived on Thursday as stray bullets allegedly killed four and injured one. According to an impeccable source in Iseyin, the persons were hit by bullets when men of the Nigeria Customs Service…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four adult males reportedly died on Sunday evening in Lagos, after a Toyota Camry crashed into a stationary tricycle. The incident occurred at about 5.19 pm, on Atlantic Road area of Epe. The Toyota Camry with number plate LSR-724 FW was said to have been on speed, skidded off the road and…