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…
LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 14 armed bandits were early Sunday morning gunned down when they invaded the Katsina-Ala Police Station in Katsina-Ala Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state to releases their detained colleagues. A source in the area who preferred anonymity disclosed that the gun battle also left some of the bandits…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be assassins, on Tuesday, killed the Peoples Democratic Party youth leader in the Oru-East Local Government Area of Imo State, Kenneth Amukamara. The hoodlums also burnt Kenneth’s house and damaged the vehicles of his brother, who is said to be a retired soldier. The incident, which happened at Umuokwe,…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-one people were killed after hail, freezing rain and high winds hit runners taking part in a 100km (62-mile) cross-country mountain race in China. The extreme weather struck a high-altitude section of the race held in the scenic Yellow River Stone Forest near Baiyin city in northwestern Gansu province on Saturday afternoon….
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Spanish journalists, an Irish conservationist and a Burkinabè soldier have reportedly been killed after suspected jihadists attacked their convoy in eastern Burkina Faso. The Irishman was named as Rory Young, the co-founder and president of Chengeta Wildlife, an anti-poaching organisation, according to RTÉ, the Irish state broadcaster. Mr Young was born…