LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Government officials and residents said overnight ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have killed several people and caused hundreds to flee their homes. “Several lives were lost and properties damaged due to this attack,” head of the Oromia Police Commission, Alemayehu Ejigu, told the state broadcaster ETV on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Few months to 2019 general elections and less than four weeks to the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP) presidential primaries, former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged threats to his life and those of his family members. The petition to the president, which was also copied the PDP…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least, 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram militants who overran a military base in Zari near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday. Scores of the terrorists in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in northern Borno State late on Thursday and briefly…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Akure, the Ondo State capital, is currently witnessing massive protest against officials of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, as a result of the alleged killing of two siblings by men of the corps. A motorcyclist, whose name is still unknown, was said to have been knocked down by an…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 42-year-old self-professed prophet, Olusola Akindele of Lion of Judah Church of Christ, Robiyan community in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been arrested for allegedly beheading his mistress for money rituals. The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who led his men to the house of the cleric located in…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 100-Level Banking and Finance student of the Kogi State University (KSU), Ayingba Yusuf Jimoh, has allegedly killed his 300-Level Philosophy counterpart and hostel mate, Sheriff Ali Umar, over a girlfriend. The victim was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle during a fight. It all started with an argument in…
LAGOS AUGUST 13H (NEWSRANGERS)-Four policemen working with the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) have died in the service of their nation, killed on Saturday in Kaduna State by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. Six of the kidnappers were also killed in the exchange of gunfire. The leader of the team, Mr Abba Kyari,…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person has been killed at NEPA polling center, Lokoja while two agents of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) were also shot by suspected political thugs in the ongoing by-election for Kogi/Koto-Karfe federal constituency. Report has it that some political thugs invaded the polling center to hijack the ballot boxes and one…
