LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Burkinabe Parliament member, who was also one of the last authorities in a region ravaged by militants, was killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northern Djibo region on Sunday, security and government officials said. The lawmaker, Oumarou Dicko, who had gone to officiate the launch of a Red Cross…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun 1 Command of Nigeria Customs Service has said that one of its officers mistakenly killed a smuggler who was attempting to disarm him in a physical battle. Spokesman for the command, Mr. Abdullahi Maiwada stated that the incident occurred early hours of Monday 21st October, 2019 at about 2am at Adisba, along…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Sector Commander, Federal Road Safety Corps, Edo State Command, Mr Anthony Oko, also confirmed the accident in which seven people lost their live and scores were injured but had “nothing” to do with Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki’s convoy. It was reported that seven persons – five adults and two children…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A prominent bodyguard of Saudi King Salman was killed following a personal dispute, state-run media reported. Major General Abdulaziz Al Faghem died of gunshot wounds in hospital after a friend shot him at Al Shatti district of the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday, citing…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More details into the killing of Navy Commandant Oluwayemisi Ogundana, of Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Secondary School, Jaji emerged on Monday as investigations showed that she was having extra-marital affairs with her murderer. Aside from the relationship, the murderer, one Mr Simon Bernard, who was the Chairman of the Parents…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security has been tightened around the Jaji Military Cantonment, in Kaduna State, as the military authorities commenced interrogation of the suspected killers of Commander Olowayemisi Ogundana. Ogundana was the Commandant of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Secondary School until she was gruesomely murdered and her dismembered body dumped in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)- The Monrovia suburb of Paynesville was a town in mourning Friday, as residents sought to come to terms with the loss of 27 pupils in a huge fire at a Liberian Koranic school. “How do you expect me to feel in this condition?” said Isatu Sow, mother of one of the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have been reportedly killed in the early hours of Tuesday as police dispersed a procession of members of the group to commemorate Ashura day. The Shiites are demanding the release of their leader, Ibraheem El-Zakzaky, who has been in detention since Dec. 2015….