LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty soldiers were feared killed when Boko Haram insurgents ambushed troops of 25 Task Force Brigade, a military operation team, along Maiduguri-Damboa road in Borno State, on Tuesday afternoon. Military sources said an exchange of fire ensued between troops and Boko Haram leading to the death of 19 soldiers. The incident was…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When the world is still battling with Covid-19 alleged to have emanated from Wahun, China, health officials in China have issued a warning after a case of another deadly disease, bubonic plague was confirmed by doctors. A third-level alert was issued in the Chinese city of Bayan Nur – the second lowest…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine persons, made up of eight Policemen and one civilian, were feared killed on Thursday in Isanlu, Kogi State when a gang of armed robbers launched an attack on a first generation bank in the town. The News Agency of Nigeria gathered that among those killed were the Divisional Police Officer in…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have arrested nine persons for alleged involvement in a crisis which claimed four lives, including a pregnant woman in Ungwan Tiv village, Lugbe, a satellite town in the Federal Capital Territory. An unidentified policeman was said to have also lost his car in the violence. It was gathered that many…
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…
