LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly snuffed out life from three traditional rulers in Imo state Tuesday afternoon The royal fathers were having their meeting in Njaba Local Government Area of the state when the shooting occurred. Our correspondent learnt that other traditional rulers were left with varying degrees of injuries. As at the time…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Details have emerged of how Dr. Chike Akunyili, the husband of the late director general of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, and later Minister of Information, Professor Dora Akunyili and eight others were slaughtered on Tuesday night at Nkpor, a suburb of the commercial city of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban have denied that one of their top leaders has been killed in a shootout with rivals, following rumours about internal splits in the movement nearly a month after its lightning victory over the Western-backed government in Kabul. Sulail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former head of…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The late music maestro and varsity don, Sir Victor Uwaifo, died of chest infection, his family has said. Sir Uwaifo’s nephew, Peter de Rock, a gospel musician, disclosed this on Sunday morning. A chest infection is an infection of the lungs or airways. The main types of chest infections are bronchitis and…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United Kingdom-based Nigerian lady, identified as Bola Aworetan, who came into the country for her mother’s burial, has been brutally murdered in Ibadan, Oyo State. A source said the deceased had come to Nigeria from the United Kingdom (UK), where she lived and worked, to bury her mother before she was…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The traditional ruler of Ochoro in Konshisha Local Government Area of Benue State, Chief Dennis Okpe Ijoko, has been killed and many of his subjects are said to be missing, following an attack by suspected armed militia on Ochoro community. The attack reportedly took place in the evening of July 20, 2021….
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three kidnapped female students of Bethel Baptist secondary school Kaduna have been reportedly killed by the bandits. A parent disclosed this to a spiritual father and Priest of St Mary Catholic Church, Kaduna. The priest who disclosed the information in a sermon during church service on Sunday in Kaduna.said they were killed…
LAGOS JU;Y 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven women were trampled to death in northeast Nigeria on Thursday in a crush during a food distribution by the International Committee of the Red Cross, a medical worker and residents said. Thousands of people thronged the distribution site in the town of Monguno in Borno State to receive aid from ICRC,…