LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Assistant Director attached to the State House, Abuja, Laetitia Dagan, has been killed by yet-to-be identified assailants. Dagan was said to have been killed in her apartment in Galadimawa, Abuja, on Monday shortly after she returned from work. The 47-year-old Plateau State indigene was said to have left her office in…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife of a Kaduna-based doctor, Philip Ataga has been found dead barely 7 days after she was kidnapped alongside her two kids. The deceased who was abducted after gunmen broke into their home at Juji community in Chikun local government area of the state, was reportedly killed over the failure of…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of al-Qaida’s Yemen branch is believed to have been killed in a U.S. airstrike earlier this year. The New York Times said three current or former U.S. officials “expressed confidence” that Qasim al-Raymi, the emir of al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), was killed in Yemen, although there was no…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Intense gunfire between two rival jihadist groups in northeast Nigeria has left several fighters dead, two sources with close knowledge of the incident told AFP on Monday. Fighters in pickup trucks from a Boko Haram faction loyal to Abubakar Shekau stormed a camp belonging to rival IS-aligned Islamic State West Africa Province…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Anambra State billionaire and owner of Fireman Generators, Chief Ignatius Odunukwe who went missing since first week of December has been found dead. The billionaire was killed, cut into pieces and his body packed into a ”Ghana Must Go” bag which his murderers took to the expressway and dumped inside a forest….
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two young men were confirmed dead midnight Friday in Jos, as residence continue to lament the negative effect weather on the Plateau state. The two young men, who were residents of Gangare community of Jos North Local Government Area, were Saturday evening , exclusively confirmed dead to Blueprint by an elder brother to one…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen early hours of Friday attacked Tawari community in Kogi local government area of Kogi killing 23 people. Among the casualties in the attack include the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chairman Tawari ward, Ibrahim Simbabi,and the Chief Imam of the village, Malam Zakari Salihu. Although the Administrator of Kogi local government, Barr….
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Four gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have been shot dead in a shoot out with members of vigilante at Manyare village, near Kotonkarfe town along Abuja -Lokoja highway. Daily trust learnt that three among the alleged kidnappers were arrested at the scene while attempting to escape into the bush. A member of…