LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed retired AIG Christopher Dega, Senior Special Assistant on Security to Gov. Samuel Ortom of Benue. ASP Ubah Ogaba, the Police Public Relations Officer of the Plateau Police Command confirmed the incident on Tuesday in Jos. He said that the incident occurred on May 31st at a restaurant in Jos…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Provost of Nigerian Immigration Service, Imo State Command, Okiemute Mrere, has been assassinated. Mrere was murdered on Saturday night on Owerri- Port Harcourt Road in Owerri, our correspondent learnt on Monday. A senior officer of NIS, who confirmed to our correspondent, said the slain officer’s corpse was discovered in a…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Imo State police claimed they have killed the suspected assassins of former PDP National Chairman, Ahmed Gulak. A press statement signed SP Bala Elkana, Police Public Relations Officer, For Commissioner of Police, Imo State sighted by NewsRangers, the police stated that, “On 30th May, 2021 following a distress received by the Command…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was disarray among a group of armed bandits on Friday as they engaged each other in a gun battle. After the gun battle,12 of them were cut down while scores were seriously injured in Kusasu Community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Many others escaped for their lives, leaving…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than three people have been killed in an attack by gunmen in Jemaa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Among the victims is the Secretary to the Ward Head of Golkofa in Jemaa local government, Sergeant Christopher Madaki (rtd), his wife and the daughter-in- law. Confirming the incident via a…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Friday night attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, with no fewer than seven security operatives feared killed. The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state Also, the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area was also torched;…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cameraman attached to the Information Unit of Jibia Local Government of Katsina State, Ibrahim Dankabo, was on Monday killed during a kidnap operation by bandits. The hoodlums also abducted many travellers in the area, local sources said. A community leader in the area, Gide Suleiman, told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Dankabo…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female police officer was shot dead on Tuesday by some gunmen in Ika Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria’s South-south. The police spokesperson in the state, Odiko MacDon, confirmed the killing which appeared to be a continuation of the attack against security agents in the country’s South-east and South-south regions….