LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen in Nigeria killed eight people on Sunday and abducted at least 60 others in two communities of northwest Zamfara state, residents and a local traditional leader said, two days after armed men kidnapped dozens from a university in the state. Elsewhere, in the northeast of the country suspected Islamist insurgents ambushed…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eight security agents comprising soldiers, policemen and Nigeria Security And Civil Defence Corps have been killed by gunmen in Imo State. The incident which happened on Tuesday morning in Umualumaku community, Ehime Mbano Local Government Area of the state has thrown the area into panic. The joint security taskforce…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A player for Panama’s national football team has been shot dead in the city of Colón. Gunmen opened fire on a group of people, among them 26-year-old Gilberto Hernández, who had gathered in a building in the city. Hernández died and seven others were injured in the attack. It is not yet…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- – At least seven worshippers were killed in an attack on a mosque by a gang of armed men in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, police said on Saturday. The attack, in the remote Saya village of the Ikara local government area of the state, occurred late on Friday as worshippers gathered…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A police orderly (name withheld) has been shot and killed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. According to eyewitnesses, the sad incident occurred around the popular Landmark hotel at Olu Obasanjo road on Friday night. The male police inspector was escorting his principal when he was shot at with the assailants escaping…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have abducted eight National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members in Zamfara State. The Guardian learnt that the corps members were travelling in Akwa Ibom Transport Company (AKTC) bus from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, to Sokoto State, for the one-year national service, when their vehicle was intercepted by the hoodlums. A source…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 34 people, including seven soldiers, were killed in an attack by a gang of armed men in Nigeria’s northwest Zamfara state, the head of a vigilante group and residents said. The attack in the remote Dan Gulbi district of the Maru local government area of the state occurred on Monday…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A popular native doctor based in his home town, Oba in Idemili North local government area of Anambra State was kidnapped on Sunday night in one of his hotels in the town. The native doctor, known as Akwa Okuko tiwara aki ( an egg that breaks palm nut), was believed to possess…