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,…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A yoghurt seller, identified simply as Jumoke, has been killed by bullets reportedly fired by a security operative dispersing Yoruba Nation agitators at Ojota, Lagos State. Our correspondent, who sighted the girl’s corpse, observed that bullets had ripped open the victim’s stomach. She is said to be 14 years old. She was…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 2021 Press Freedom report has disclosed that the media industry recorded seven unresolved killings, 300 violations, affecting about 500 journalists, media workers, and media houses in Nigeria under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. The report released by the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) in collaboration with the Nigeria Union…