LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian doctors may start refusing to attend to patients with Lassa fever if they are not provided with the right equipment to protect themselves. Dr Mike Ozovehe Ogirima, president of the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA), told BBC Yoruba that eight doctors had died of the disease since the beginning of the year…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four members of a family were Wednesday massacred in Taraba State by the rampaging herdsmen. A 9-month-old toddler, however, survived the attack, eye-witnesses told The Nation. Police Commissioner, David Akinremi, who confirmed the attack and killings, said, the incident, took place in Bikka village of Takum local government area, the home of…
LAGOS APRIL3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- A Boko Haram attack in the Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed at least 15 people and wounded 83, a military spokesman said on Monday, in the biggest strike since the government said it was in talks with the Islamist militant group. The military said the incident occurred late on Sunday and included…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have shot dead Samson Sedi, a leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the Etsako West Local Government Area of Edo state. Sedi, the youth leader of the APC in the area, was killed in Jattu on Wednesday. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Johnson Kokumo, confirmed the…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman walking across an Arizona road was hit and killed by a self-driving car from Uber Technologies Inc. on Sunday — probably the first pedestrian fatality for the fast-growing movement toward driverless vehicles. Tempe police said Elaine Herzberg, 49, was struck by an Uber test vehicle operating in autonomous mode. In…
LAGOS MATCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The suspected lunatic, Lekan Adebisi, who killed two pupils of St. John’s Anglican Primary School, Agodo, Ogun Waterside Local Government Area, Ogun State, has blamed his action on ‘frustration.’ Adebisi attacked and killed Mubarak Kalesowo and Sunday Obituyi on the school premises on Monday. The pupils were said to be on lunch…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday, granted bail to Maryam Sanda, the woman who allegedly killed her husband, Bilyamin Bello. Maryam, who is the daughter of Maimuna Aliyu, a former Aso Savings Bank executive, was arraigned by the police for allegedly killing the son of a former PDP Chairman, Mohammed…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police say a suicide bomber riding a bicycle with explosive devices strapped to his body killed three people when he detonated himself in a crowded suburb of Nigeria’s northeast city of Maiduguri. Fox News Report. Borno State police spokesman Joseph Kwaji said Tuesday that at least 17 others were injured by the…