LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters says the troops of Operation DELTA SAFE on Tuesday in Bayelsa State raided the Pirates/Militants’ camp and Kidnappers’ hideouts, eliminating six criminals. The Coordinator, Defence Media Operations, Maj.-Gen. John Enenche, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Enenche said the troops, acting on credible intelligence, monitored movements…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected militants from Islamist group Boko Haram killed 15 people and wounded six others in a grenade attack on a camp for displaced people in northern Cameroon on Sunday, a security source and a local official told Reuters. In the early hours, assailants threw a grenade into a group of sleeping people…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebonyi State police command have declared manhunt for armed robbers who killed four police men, injured two after attacking a bullion van at Ezzamgbo junction in Ohaukwu local government area of Ebonyi state. The van was moving money from Enugu to Abakaliki. It was gathered that the hoodlums attempted to intercept the…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA) has said two persons died while three were injured when a 20-feet container fell on a commercial bus at Ilasamaja on the Oshodi-Badagry Expressway. LASEMA Director-General, Olufemi Oke-Osanyintolu, who confirmed the accident on Sunday in Lagos, said the dead bodies and injured persons had been…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have charged one Moses Anyaoha with nine counts bordering on criminal conspiracy, culpable homicide and stealing. The Police alleged that Anyaoha and one Tony Mba, now at large, between 2010 and January 2011 conspired to commit offence of culpable homicide contrary to Section 96 of the Penal Code. Prosecution Counsel,…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The remains of a Nigeria Army Capt, GSM Abubakar who was killed along Lokoja- Okene highway has been moved to his hometown in Niger state for burial. A source close to the mortuary unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja told our correspondent that the family of the deceased and and few…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Agency (LATSMA) , Emmanuel Mekuri allegedly killed himself after stabbing his live-in – lover at the Morogbo area of the state. It was gathered that Mekuri and his lover, Patricia Ogunshola , were having argument over undisclosed matter which degenerated to a fight and…
LAGOS JUKY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed 26 people in a deadly attack on a drug rehabilitation centre in central Mexico as the country’s government struggles to fulfil its pledge to stop gang violence. Police in Guanajuato state said the attack on Wednesday occurred at a modest two-story house, which was an unregistered rehab centre on…