LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have shot dead five people sleeping inside a mosque in Katakpa community in Toto LGA of Nasarawa State. Confirming the incident to our reporter through telephone on Thursday, a resident, Ibrahim Yakubu, said the attack happened on Wednesday around 2am. He said the shooting attracted some soldiers who mobilised, engaged the…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Police Command on Wednesday said Arthur Angel Jr., the 17-year-old son of the 70-year-old deceased human rights activist, Arthur Judah Angel, killed his father with a sledgehammer over monetary demand at Ugboha, in Esan South East Local Government Area of the state. The anti-death penalty advocate, Angel, was killed…
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….