LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 14 people were shot dead in an attack on a church in eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday morning, the government said. The identity of the gunmen was not immediately clear and further details on the attack had yet to emerge. Burkinabe armed forces were caring for the wounded and…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have attacked Oyo State commissioner for lands, Abdulraheem Abiodun, killing his driver in the process. The commissioner was attacked on Wednesday around 8:00 pm just after he was dropped at his residence in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. His escort is being treated at an undisclosed hospital after being shot by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four judges were killed in an alleged Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s central province of Logar, officials said on Thursday. Provincial Council Members, Hasibullah Stanekzai and Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, announced this in Kabul. The judges were on their way to Kabul, from the southern province of Paktiya, when their car was targeted by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The act of kidnappings have reached an alarming rate at the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) with the latest abduction of a Police Inspector and two others in the nation’s Federal Capital. The incident happened in Rubochi community in Kuje Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. It was gathered the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men suspected to be kidnappers have struck again in Kuje suburbs of Abuja, killing one person and abducting a Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer, along with his two children. The attack happened at Dafara community whose District Head, Makeri Joseph, told newsmen in Kuje on Thursday, October 10th…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have attacked the Government Technical Secondary School located at Maraban Kajuru community in Kajuru local government area of Kaduna, abducting the principal of the school. The latest attack comes just a week after suspected kidnappers abducted six female students of Engraver’s college at Kakau Daji village in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have kidnapped six female students and two teachers of a private secondary school in Kakau Daji Village in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Reports say the gunmen stormed Engravers College around 12:10 am on Thursday. Kakau Daji is said to be behind the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd….