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…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian troops killed 24 suspected Islamist insurgents in two attacks in the northeast and recovered some weapons, the army said on Tuesday. Boko Haram and its offshoot Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) have been fighting the Nigerian armed forces for more than a decade in a conflict that has killed hundreds…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, Cosmas Ibeziako Ugwueze, has dismissed a trending video of attack on military personnel by indigenes of his area. The LGA boss spoke on the development in a statement he issued and made available to newsmen on Monday. Ugwueze said: “The attention of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 20 people were killed in Nigeria’s Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and torched cars, as armed gangs continue to wreak havoc in the northwest part of the country, a state official and local member of parliament said on Saturday. Northwestern Nigeria has since last December witnessed a wave…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI have neutralised several bandits and destroyed their hideouts at Sokoto and Katsina forests in the North West, PRNigeria reports. A military source told PRNigeria that the mission was achieved through air strikes executed on October 5, 2021. This was after series of aerial surveillance missions had…