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,…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has confirmed the killing of at least 47 soldiers by members of the Boko Haram terrorist group in Borno State. The Director of Defence Information, Major General John Enenche, disclosed this during a session with reporters on Tuesday in Abuja. Enenche explained that troops of Operation Lafiya Dole…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Grace Fusco — mother of 11, grandmother of 27 — would sit in the same pew at church each Sunday, surrounded by nearly a dozen members of her sprawling Italian American family. Sunday dinners drew an even larger crowd to her home in central New Jersey. Now, her close-knit clan is united…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits over the weekend attacked travellers on the Birnin-Gwari – Kaduna highway killing, kidnapping and injuring travelers. The attacks took place on Saturday evening and on Sunday evening. Some of the kidnapped victims of the Saturday attack were said to be students who were on their way back to Birnin-Gwari from…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in the agrarian community of Akungba-Akoko in Akoko South West Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday night following the death of a police officer and his wife. The deceased policeman who was attached to Akungba Division of the Ondo Police command was said to have allegedly shot his…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than four people were, on Tuesday, allegedly killed by Customs officers in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. Residents of the area gave two different narratives of the incident. While some said the victims were killed when a seized truck controlled by Customs officers hit road users, others said the victims…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A renowned human rights lawyer, Mike Ozekhome SAN, has urged the Senate to restrain from passing the bill seeking an agency for rehabilitation of repentant Boko Haram members, arguing that the proposal is “madness taken to its very ludicrous Zenith and apogee”. He postulated that the proposed bill “is an unfortunate confirmation…
