LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 Nigerian Muslim pilgrims on their way to Senegal were killed when gunmen in Burkina Faso attacked the buses transporting them, Nigeria’s presidency said on Monday. “President Muhammadu Buhari has received the tragic news of the murder,” the State House said in a statement without providing a number of…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected armed robber, Williams Abiodun, on Wednesday, narrated how his gang killed their victims and sold their vehicles in Benin, Edo State. Abiodun, while being paraded alongside 10 other suspects at the command headquarters in Edo State, said he and four members of his gang usually disguised as site workers to…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unidentified assailants have mistakenly killed a gang member during an operation in Anambra State. This happened when they invaded the Mgbuka-Amanzu Road by Pillar Bread junction, on Obibuenyi Street, Okpoko, in the Ogbaru Local Government Area of the state. Two persons were said to be killed in the process. The incident…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kenyan security forces have killed 10 fighters from Somalia’s al Shabaab Islamist group in eastern Kenya, a government official said on Thursday. They also recovered rocket propelled grenades and improvised explosive devices after fighting the militants on Wednesday in the village of Galmagalla in Garissa county, said Thomas Bett, deputy county commissioner…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. President Joe Biden approved an emergency declaration for California after a week of storms killed at least 12 people in the past 10 days and knocked out power for hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses in the state. The emergency declaration authorizes the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to coordinate…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has revealed that all policemen attached to the Ajah police station in Lagos State have been transferred out of the division. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, made the disclosure in a series of tweet on Monday. Hundeyin, who was reacting to a report published…
LAGOS JANUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS) – An unidentified Police Officer has reportedly shot and killed his five-year-old niece while celebrating on New Year Eve. Media Personality and Talk Show Host, Oladotun Ojuolape, who revealed this on his Twitter handle on New Year day, noted that the trigger-happy Officer was ‘likely’ drunken before the incident. According to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 House of Assembly candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for Odogbolu State Constituency, Ogun State, Lukmon Adeleye, has lamented the rate at which armed robbers attack people along the Agoro-Okun Owa axis of the old Lagos-Benin Road Adeleye blamed the non-repair of the Agoro-Okun Owa axis of the old…