LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One Taoreed Akano was shot dead in Ibadan, on Monday, by suspected armed robbers. In the incident which occurred at about 1.20 pm opposite Oyo State Environmental Task Force office, Agodi, Akano was trailed on a bike from a Guaranty Trust bank in Bodija after he had gone to make two withdrawals…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen have abducted two sons of a former Commissioner in Zamfara, (North West Nigeria), Alhaji Bello Dankande, and two others, including an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC). The Spokesman of the State’s Police Command, SP Muhammad Shehu, told newsmen in Gusau, the State’s capital that the gunmen…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bauchi State Police Command has confirmed the gruesome killing of a member of the Bauchi State House of Assembly representing Dass constituency, Musa Mante Baraza. The police through the PPRO, DSP Ahmed Wakili confirmed through the telephone on Friday morning that the member was attacked and killed by the yet to be…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed 21 villagers in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, police said Friday, in the latest deadly violence between ethnic Fulani herders and local farmers over grazing and water rights. Community leaders however said a higher total of 33 people were killed in the assaults on the remote five villages which took…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four persons, including a pregnant woman, identified as Imomotimi, have been killed in Azikoro Village in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State. The other victims, according to locals, are Alfred Marcus 30; Gabriel Ejimofor 45 and Uchechukwu Ejimofor 38. The incident happened when hoodlums suspected to be cult members attacked a…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Governor of Bornor State, Babagana Zulum escaped death as gunmen attacked convoy at Baga, a town in the state, on Wednesday. TheCable quoted a security source that the governor was on his way to some internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in the northern part of Borno when the incident happened….
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebonyi State police command have declared manhunt for armed robbers who killed four police men, injured two after attacking a bullion van at Ezzamgbo junction in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state. The van was moving money from Enugu to Abakaliki. It was gathered that the hoodlums attempted to intercept the…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unknown gunmen attacked the residence of the Commissioner for Youths, Hon. Damian Lawani in Udaba Ekphei Community, Etsako West Local Government Area (LGA) of Edo state. The state government in a statement released on Wednesday July 22, said that it had alerted the public through publications in national newspapers that Oshiomhole and a billionaire…