LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A herbalist, two men and a woman were on Monday docked before a Yaba Chief Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly dismembering a mother of two. The police arraigned Mayowa Bamidele, 36, Kemi Azeez, 20, Oyedegun Adewale, 27, and Jejelaye Olusola, 22. Bamidele, is charged with murder and misconduct with regards…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The community leaders are pleading with the Lagos State Government to clear the shanties built by the hoodlums and station security personnel at the bus stops. The CDA leaders who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria said that their bus stops are not secure anymore. They said that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Islamic State killed himself and four members of his family during a high-stakes nighttime raid by U.S. special operations forces in northwest Syria early Thursday, U.S. officials said. The mission, which White House officials said was a success, eliminated a top terrorist leader in the Middle East, a man…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Security operatives comprising police, army and local vigilante men yesterday killed three kidnappers along the Benin/Ekpoma road, in Edo State. The incident occurred at Okhuo, a community close to Ehor, headquarters of Uhunmwode local government area of the state. The rampaging kidnappers had reportedly taken over the ever busy highway on Tuesday…
LAGOS February 1st (newsrangers)-Gunmen in Nigeria have killed 11 security agents and several villagers after attacking remote villages in the north-central state of Niger, its governor Alhaji Bello said on Monday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of northern Nigeria in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and perpetrating mass kidnappings for ransom. Bello said the…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 70 people were killed in an air strike on prison and at least three children died in a separate bombardment as Yemen’s long-running conflict suffered a dramatic escalation of violence on Friday. The Huthi rebels released gruesome video footage showing bodies in the rubble and mangled corpses from the prison…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of gunmen on motorbikes ransacked a village and killed more than 50 people in the latest violence in northwest Nigeria, residents said on Sunday. Gangs have been terrorising areas of the northwest in recent years, forcing thousands to flee and gaining global notoriety through mass kidnappings at schools for ransom. Local…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be Fulani herders, over the weekend, killed a commercial driver identified as Oluwatosin Aruwajoye, and abducted five passengers, while another person, Ibrahim Tiamiyu, was shot in the thigh at the Onigaari axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. One of the passengers, however, managed to escape. The driver’s corpse has been…