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…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Danish naval patrol killed four pirates in an exchange of fire in the Gulf of Guinea off the coast of Nigeria, Denmark’s armed forces said on Thursday. “No Danish soldiers were injured, but five pirates were shot,” the military said. “Four of the pirates died. One was injured,” it added. The…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Nigerian Boko Haram jihadists who are being held in a camp after surrendering to the military rioted on Wednesday to demand the right to slaughter cows for meat, sources said. The riot prompted residents in the northeast city of Maiduguri to lay siege to the camp, wielding swords, daggers and…
LAGOS NOVMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was palpable tension in Akure, Ondo State on Wednesday after a police officer shot dead two persons while another died from an accident. According to a report by Channels Television, those who died were two commercial motorcycle riders and a passenger. Eyewitnesses said a bus driven by a woman knocked down…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scorpions in Egypt have stung three people to death in the southern city of Aswan after heavy storms brought them into the streets and homes. Some 450 more people were injured by scorpion stings, a health ministry official said. The hail and thunder storm in the area near the River Nile on…