LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 22-year-old gunman entered an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Colorado, just before midnight Saturday and immediately opened fire, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others, before patrons confronted and stopped him, police said Sunday. The suspect in the shooting at Club Q was identified as Anderson Lee Aldrich, according…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some alleged members of the Eastern Security Network (ESN) have threatened to make Anambra State ungovernable and to force the state Governor Chukwuma Soludo to resign through killings They warned that since he has decided to use police and military to hunt them, they will make the State ungovernable for him. A…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has confirmed the kidnapping of one Mrs Victoria Dandaura, wife of the head of the Corps Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad (CG’SSIS). This is contained in a statement by NSCDC Director, Public Relations Office (PRO), Mr Olusola Odumosu, on Thursday in Abuja. The Spokesman…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons were killed and three others injured on Sunday when gunmen attacked a Celestial Church of Christ at Felele, Lokoja, Kogi State. An eyewitness, who asked not to be identified for security reasons, said the gunmen, who were fully armed, stormed the church and started shooting continuously. It was learnt that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Heavily armed bandits have attacked the convoy of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah representing Anambra South Senatorial District at the National Assembly killing at least seven persons. Though details of the incident were scanty at press time, Senator Uba and his driver were said to have escaped in his bulletproof Sports Utility Vehicle (SUV)….
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Francis Oguntulu, the Deputy Chief of Staff to the Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area Chairman, Kehinde Oloyede, has been shot dead by some gunmen at a party. In a statement from the media office of the LG boss on Sunday, it was revealed that Oguntulu was shot at and axed on Adeyemi street,…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen, on Friday, killed a point of sale (POS) operator in Apata, Ibadan, the Oyo capital. The attackers took away the operator’s bag containing food, and witnesses said they suspected the gunmen assumed the bag contained money. A resident, who identified himself as Ojikutu, said the POS operator, simply referred to as…