LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Turkish footballer has been arrested for killing his 5-year-old son while the boy was being treated in a hospital on suspicion of a COVID-19 infection. According to reports, Cevher Toktas, 32, handed himself over to the police and confessed to having smothered his son, Kasim, with a pillow on May 4….
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 100 people are said to have died in Azare, Bauchi State, over the last one week owing to Coronavirus complications. Azare is the second largest town in the state after Bauchi, the state capital. Ibrahim Mohammed Baba, former lawmaker representing Katagum Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, made…
LAGOS MAY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new study by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that if containment measures in African countries fail, between 83,000 and 190,000 people across the continent could die in the first 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic. The study was based on 47 African countries with a total population of 1…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS )-Men of the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Ogun State have been accused of killing a 15-year-old boy, Riliwan Bello, in Owode, Yewa South Local Government of the state. DAILY POST learnt that Bello, a student of Area Community High School was allegedly killed by a stray bullet fired by men…
LAGOS APRIL 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Boko Haram fighters have opened fire on the convoy carrying the family of a former governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff. Security sources told SaharaReporters that the insurgents attacked the convoy while traveling from Abuja to Maiduguri to attend the three-day prayer of Sheriff’s late father, Alhaji Galadima Modu, who died…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A gunman disguised as a policeman killed at least 16 people, including a female police officer, in what is believed to be Canada’s worst mass shooting. The 12-hour rampage started on Saturday and ended with a car chase. Police said the suspect shot people at different locations in Nova Scotia, many of…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The coronavirus pandemic could kill 300,000 people in Africa this year, even with assertive government measures to limit social interactions, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. Overcrowded slums with no access to water coupled with fragile health-care systems make the continent especially vulnerable to the disease, the Addis Ababa-based…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram jihadists have killed nearly 100 Chadian soldiers in a seven-hour attack on an island army base, in their deadliest assault yet on the country’s armed forces. President Idriss Deby told Chad television he travelled to the scene of the attack on Tuesday to pay tribute to the 92 dead soldiers,…