LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A leaked memo from Defence Headquarters on the assessment of the kidnap incident at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has confirmed Daily Trust report which revealed that the bandits may have gained access into the academy through a lose barbwire fence along the Kaduna International Airport road in Afaka. The leaked memo,…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS0-Attackers shot dead at least 36 people and destroyed buildings in a night raid on a village near the central Nigerian city of Jos, officials said, in an area hit by repeated ethnic clashes. The gunmen went house to house killing residents in Yelwa Zangam late on Tuesday, a military spokesman said….
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have attacked the permanent site of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, killing two officers and abducting one other officer. Although the authorities have yet to confirm the incident, a security source told Channels Television that the incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday. The bandits who came in…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirty-seven civilians were killed in a region of western Niger that has been battered by jihadist incursions from neighbouring Mali, local sources said Tuesday. “Armed men who arrived on motorbikes” attacked the village of Darey-Daye in the Tillaberi region on Monday afternoon as people were working in the fields, a local official…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Thursday night attacked the Divisional Police Headquarters in the Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State. The attack claimed the lives of four persons which included a police Inspector and three of the attackers. While parts of the police Division were burnt, cars parked on the premises were not spared….
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Magistrate’s Court in Yola on Thursday remanded Aminu Yar’Adua, 36, the son of late former President Musa Yar’Adua, in prison for allegedly killing four people in an auto crash in Yola. Yar’Adua, a student of the American University of Nigeria (AUN) Yola, was charged to court for allegedly causing death by…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security forces killed at least 115 people in southeast Nigeria this year and arbitrarily arrested or tortured scores of others, in response to violence from separatists agitating for autonomy, Amnesty International said on Thursday. A Nigerian presidency spokesman declined to comment on the information set out in an Amnesty report. Police and…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits abducted at least 60 people and killed one person in a raid of five villages in Shinkafi LGA of Zamfara on Friday night. The attackers rode on over 70 motorbikes into the villages and fired sporadically into the air, a police official and several residents said on Saturday. They killed a…