LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-US intelligence discovered earlier this year that the Russian government planned to assassinate the chief executive of a powerful German arms manufacturer that has been producing artillery shells and military vehicles for Ukraine, according to five US and western officials familiar with the episode. The plot was one of a series of Russian plans to…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRNAGERS)-Deadly rip currents off Panama City, Florida, killed four people within 48 hours, a tragic toll setting the area on pace for another year as one of the country’s deadliest beaches. The bodies of three young men were found, one by one, Friday evening, authorities said. They had traveled to Panama City…
LAGOS MAY 22 (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Ebi’s Mechanic Road, Amarata area in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State, were on Tuesday thrown into mourning after the decomposing bodies of seven friends were found in a music studio apartment. The tragic incident, suspected to have been caused by generator fumes in the studio owned by one…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck at Ode-Omu on Saturday morning as a car whose occupants were said to be students of Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, rammed into a motorcycle, killing four persons, including the bike man. The motorcycle, according to an eyewitness, was conveying a woman simply identified as Cecilia and her three children to…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen, on Wednesday night, attacked Idah, a community under Kagarko LGA in Kaduna State, killing two people, and abducting scores watching champions league match between Real Madrid and Bayern Munich. Idah is located along a federal highway that links Bwari town in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and Jere town in Kaduna…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator and the acting mayor of a small Haiti town have been charged in the death of a journalist whose 2019 killing, amid the country’s deepening political crisis, sparked protests and calls for an investigation after he became the third journalist in the country killed in less than two years….
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Russian mercenary group known as Wagner is helping government forces in central and northern Mali carry out raids and drone strikes that have killed scores of civilians, including many children, rights groups said in reports published this week that span the period from December to March. Mali, along with its neighbors…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six residents, including the ward head, Haruna Wakili, were killed when terrorists attacked Yar Nasarawa, a community in Faskari Local Government Area of Katsina State on Monday. Residents said the terrorists abducted about 38 residents, including women and children and left 10 residents with gunshot injuries. They also burnt down six houses,…