LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian security forces are searching for armed gangs who killed 47 people in attacks in recent days in rural areas of the country’s northwest, the latest killings in the troubled region. The attacks took place in the northwest Kaduna state which neighbors Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, Kaduna commissioner for security Samuel Aruwan…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mechanic, Promise Tochukwu, aka Daddy, has been shot dead by a yet-to-be-identified policeman on Opaleye Bridge, around Okoya Street, Ajegunle in the Ifelodun Local Council Development Area of Lagos State. The killer cop was said to have followed a security team to the area, which included military men of the Operation…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 74 people are dead and more than 100 still missing in Kentucky alone after tornadoes ravaged the area, shaken Gov. Andy Beshear said Monday. The governor fought back tears at a morning press conference as he talked about the youngest victims — at least seven under the age of 18, including several…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Federal House of Representatives Member, Hon. (Mrs) Sharon Aondona Daboh has allegedly beaten her husband, Mr David Kersha Fiase to pulp, leaving him with high degree injuries. According to Paradise News Hon. Sharon who represented Jechira Federal Constituency in Benue State between 2003 and 2007, had allegedly threatened to kill…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Burkina Faso’s military says that its joint operation with Niger’s army has killed at least 100 extremist rebels. The Burkina Faso armed forces said on Friday that its joint force with neighboring Niger also arrested 20 suspects and seized significant equipment from the rebels in the past two weeks. At least 13…
LAGOS There was palpable tension in Aramoko-Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government area of Ekiti State yesterday, as a policeman and a Special Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps, were shot dead on Monday evening when armed robbers attacked a branch of an old generation bank located in the community. This was the second time…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two lovers and their friend have been murdered in their house located at Aralusi quarters in Akure, the Ondo State capital, by suspected Yahoo Yahoo Boys (internet fraudsters). The lovers: Ojo Akinro and Mary Igwe, and friend, Lamidi Sheriff, had their bodies locked up in the toilet to decompose. It was learnt…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Gunmen have killed four men who were involved in the maintenance on a pipeline owned by the Nigerian subsidiary of Italian oil giant Eni, a local security spokesman told Reuters. The men, two workers, a driver and a security operative, died at a facility in Nembe, Bayelsa state, which feeds…