LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A Nigerian army general and three soldiers were killed on Saturday during an attack by Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) militants in the northeast of the country, the army and sources said. ISWAP split from Boko Haram five years ago and pledged allegiance to Islamic State and has been fighting…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 29-year-old driver, Clement Itoro, has confessed to killing missing Vanguard reporter, Tordue Henry Salem, who was found dead on Thursday, in a hit-and-run incident. Itodo was paraded on Friday at the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) premises, Guzape, Abuja. Force Public Relations Officer, CP Frank Mba, while briefing reporters said Itoro…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven police personnel were killed by suspected bandits along the Tofa-Magami Road in the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An indigene of the area, Salisu Sani, told The PUNCH that the incident occurred about 6pm on Monday when the police personnel went to the area on patrol mission. Sani said,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger has declared two days of national mourning from Friday, after at least 69 people were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents. The attack happened in the country’s south-west, near the border with Mali. Victims included a local mayor and the leader of a self-defence militia, the government said. A…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former army private admitted at a trial on Tuesday that he had helped transport a hit squad to assassinate Burkina Faso’s revolutionary leader, Thomas Sankara, 34 years ago. The trial unfolding at a military court in Ouagadougou is being closely followed by the Burkinabe public, many of whom hope it will…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security agencies have reported the killing of a man, his wife and son, by a lynch mob in Zangon Aya community, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the report, Abdullahi Mohammed Gobirawa, his wife Binta Abdullahi and his son Hassan Abdullahi were killed when a mob stormed their home…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men on motorbikes killed at least 18 people at a mosque in Niger state in northern Nigeria, two residents told Reuters on Monday. The attackers arrived in the Maza-Kuka community of Mashegu local government area at roughly 5 a.m., the residents said. “They came and went straight to the mosque and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sudan’s military seized power from a transitional government on Monday and soldiers killed at least three people and wounded 80 as street protests broke out against the coup. The leader of the takeover, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, dissolved the military-civilian Sovereign Council that had been set up to guide the country to…