LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen on Monday invaded a police station in Agudama community in Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa State, firing and killing four police personnel. The yet-to-identified officers that were killed included the Divisional Police Officer, a pregnant policewoman and two policemen who were on duty. The gunmen carted away rifles, ammunition and…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Aare Onakakanfo, Gani Adams has ordered Fulani marauders killing people in the Southwest to vacate Yorubaland now or face the consequence as the Yoruba people will not fold their arms and watch their people being killed, raped and kidnapped. Arising from a crucial meeting of the Aare Onakakanfo in Council, Adams…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a tragedy in Imo State on Monday as no fewer than ten traditional wedding guests died of fume from a generator and twenty others hospitalised. The incident happened at Umuomumu Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state. A source told our correspondent that the wedding guests from…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper, Sani Haruna aka Gayu, who was arrested by the Inspector General of Police special team has confessed to Saturday Vanguard that he has lost count of the number of people he killed for failing to pay ransom. In an interview at one of the safe locations in Abuja where…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed six people including a priest outside a Catholic church in Burkina Faso on Sunday, the government said, the second attack on Christians in two weeks in a nation increasingly overrun by jihadists. Congregants were leaving church around 9 a.m. (0900 GMT) in the town of Dablo in the Central North…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ Union (NURTW) have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged kiilings by suspected kidnappers along the East-West road between Bayelsa and Rivers states. According to the CLO and the NURTW, though the state governors of Bayelsa…
LAGOS APRIL 21S (NEWRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have killed two persons and abducted three others in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The state police command spokesman, DSP Yakubu Sabo, who confirmed the incident in a statement, said the gunmen who were armed with dangerous weapons invaded the Kajuru Castle Resort at about…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH NEWSRANGERS)-A single mother, identified as Aina Bello has reportedly killed her own four year old daughter, Sadie by feeding her with rat poison because she had health challenges. She was subsequently arrested by detectives in the state police command. Police source hinted Vanguard that the ugly incident happened at Iyase Quarter, Arigidi…