LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Extremist fighters killed eight people including soldiers in multiple attacks in northern Cameroon on Tuesday, a regional official said. Fighters with Boko Haram killed three customs officers, three soldiers and two civilians in separate attacks in the towns of Mora and Zigage on the border with Nigeria, said Midjiyawa Bakari, governor of…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERSParishioners of Immaculate Heart Catholic Church located at Ekwe Street, Mile 3 Diobu, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, were thrown into shock when an alleged mentally challenged man ran into the church on Wednesday night, confessing to killing a commercial sex worker, a year ago. The Guardian gathered that the church security guard on…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas leak killed 11 people in India on Sunday, an official said, in the latest deadly industrial accident in the vast developing economy of 1.4 billion people. The gas leak happened in Giaspura, an industrial area of Ludhiana in the northern state of Punjab. “Eleven deaths are confirmed,” Mandeep Singh Sidhu,…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A vulcaniser, simply identified as Bolaji, was killed on Saturday after loose stray tyres from an articulated vehicle knocked him down in front of his vulcaniser stand, at Fakunle Area, Osogbo, Osun. The News Agency of Nigeria learnt that the accident, which occurred at about 7.00 a.m, left many sympathisers traumatised, as…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Agency for Food and Drugs Administration and Control (NAFDAC) has warned Nigerians about a dangerous cough syrup called ‘Naturcold’ in circulation. According to reports, the syrup which is reportedly manufactured by Fraken Group, is believed to have caused the deaths of six children under the age of five at a…
LAGOS APRIL 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Supremacy clashes involving members of the Aiye and the Eiye confraternities at Ijanikin, in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, have led to the deaths of two persons including an undergraduate of the Lagos State University, Kamoru Lasisi, and a tiler, Lateef Atanda. PUNCH Metro gathered that members of the…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Friday morning killed five policemen at the Okpala Junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. Also killed were a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu who hailed from Amankwo Okpala community. The incident has thrown the junction and the entire community into a state…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed two aides and kidnapped their boss, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The kidnappers also shot three of the police escorts attached to the senior lawyer. It was gathered that the policemen, who sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack, have…