LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman allegedly killed her mother and chopped the body into pieces in Ikot Ekpene, Akwa Ibom. According to an eyewitness, Emmanuel Umanah, who posted the photos from the crime scene, the shocking incident happened at Umoh Obot road off Nto Akpan Inyang Street in Ikot Ekpene. Some of the photos shows the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnapped chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nasarawa State, Philip Shekwo, has been found dead. Vanguard reports that his corpse was dumped around his home in Lafia. The chairman of Karu local government, Samuel Akala, also confirmed the death on his Facebook page. Governor Abdullahi Sule; the speaker of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen suspected to be assassins have killed a retired Shell staff simply identified as ETK Amah, after abducting him on Tuesday night in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. Details on the incident are still sketchy, however, it was gathered Amah, said to be a former NUPENG chairman, was kidnapped in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, announced the donation of N20 million each to families of soldiers and policemen killed by members of proscribed Indigenous Peoples Organisation of Biafra (IPOB) in Oyigbo last week. According to reports, five soldiers and three policemen were killed on October 21 while the area…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It was pure tragedy that struck again in Kogi State as a popular transporter in Lokoja, Mallam Aliyu Danborno was gruesomely murdered. He was killed in the late hours of Thursday at the Osara – Irepeni axis of Okene – Lokoja road by suspected kidnappers. According to a family source, the popular…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services has confirmed the killing of two of its personnel by members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra in Emene, Enugu State on Sunday. In a late-night statement made available to Vanguard by its Spokesman Dr. Peter Afunanya, the DSS said the attack on its personnel was…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty inmates were killed in a shootout with police during a prison breakout in Madagascar on Sunday, the justice ministry said. Scores of prisoners attacked guards with rocks and grabbed a gun as they tried to flee the Farafangana prison in the southeast of the Indian Ocean island, it said. The police…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram terrorists have invaded many communities in Magumeri Local Government Area of Borno State, killing scores of farmers and herders after rustling hundreds of their domestic animals, mostly cows. Magumeri is North and about 40 kilometres from Maiduguri, the state capital, which has witnessed a series of Boko Haram attacks. One…