LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men suspected to be kidnappers have struck again in Kuje suburbs of Abuja, killing one person and abducting a Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) officer, along with his two children. The attack happened at Dafara community whose District Head, Makeri Joseph, told newsmen in Kuje on Thursday, October 10th…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command has said that a notorious gang leader in the state has been killed. According to the Command, the Bori Police Station led by the DPO, in a coordinated operation trailed one Linus Lebari ‘m’ 35yrs AKA ‘BOBBY’ also known as “DEVIL” from Tekon Sogho in Khana LGA…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has allegedly killed a student of Ojomo Community High School, Ihunbo, while conveying a seized tokunbo vehicle. The school is located at Ihunbo town, Ipokia Local Government, a border town between Nigeria and the Republic of Benin. A resident of the town…
LAGOS OCTOBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A homeless man confessed to fatally bludgeoning four sleeping vagrants and critically injuring a fifth during a bloody rampage through Chinatown, a prosecutor said in court on Sunday. Randy Santos, 24, came clean when cops confronted him with evidence of the grisly attacks, Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Alfred Peterson said. “While he…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 17-year-old twisted teenager has killed a 91-year-old World War veteran by beating, dousing him with gasoline, and setting him on fire. The 91-year-old, Paul Monchnik had been living in Detroit and was a friendly and active member of the Detroit community. Paul Monchnik became a USA immigrant at the age of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Niger State Police Command has said that a mob killed one Ahmed Bello, a Vehicle Inspector Officer, in Mariga Local Government Area of the state. The State Commissioner of Police, Adamu Usman, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Minna on Friday. Narrating the incident,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious kidnapper in Rivers state, Brown Ike Ekwueme (a k a Lucifer), has been killed by men of the state Police command on Monday. The spokesman of the police in the state, Nnamdi Omoni who broke the news in a statement in Port Harcourt the state capital last night said, Ekweme…