LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the ten members of the same family kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna State. Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna. Bashir,…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have shot dead five people sleeping inside a mosque in Katakpa community in Toto LGA of Nasarawa State. Confirming the incident to our reporter through telephone on Thursday, a resident, Ibrahim Yakubu, said the attack happened on Wednesday around 2am. He said the shooting attracted some soldiers who mobilised, engaged the…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers have killed a yet-to-be-identified traveler and abducted seven others on Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode expressway. Vanguard reliably gathered that the gunmen, numbering about seven, armed with AK 47 rifles, struck around 6pm on Friday, between Ilisan, Ceplast industry and Iperu junction axis of the expressway. A viral audio from one…
LAGOS 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Camouflage-clad gunmen opened fire with automatic weapons at concertgoers near Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring 145 in an attack claimed by Islamic State militants. In the deadliest attack in Russia since the 2004 Beslan school siege, gunmen sprayed civilians with bullets just before Soviet-era rock group “Picnic” was…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 school children in Nigeria last Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community told CNN on Wednesday. “They called me from a hidden number…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty gunmen reportedly raided the Kawu Community in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), kidnapping 23 people, including former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Ward Chairman, Alhaji Alhassan Sidi Kawu. New Telegraph reports that the abduction occurred in the early morning hours of Thursday, February 29. The attackers, who…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people have been shot dead at a mosque on the same day that a church was attacked, say the authorities in Burkina Faso. It was during early-morning prayers that the gunmen surrounded the mosque in Natiaboani town. “The victims were all Muslims, most of them men,” a local resident told…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 15 people have been killed and two others injured following an attack on a Catholic church in north-eastern Burkina Faso on Sunday. It took place during Sunday worship in Essakane village in Oudalan province – close to the border with Mali. Few details have been given. A church official indicated…