LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The trial of eight South African police officers charged with the torture and murder of Nigerian National, Ibrahim Olamilekan Badmus, is underway at the North Gauteng High Court in Pretoria, South Africa. The eight police officers – two women and six men – were arrested in October 2017 by police watchdog, the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four judges were killed in an alleged Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s central province of Logar, officials said on Thursday. Provincial Council Members, Hasibullah Stanekzai and Mohammad Qasim Sediqi, announced this in Kabul. The judges were on their way to Kabul, from the southern province of Paktiya, when their car was targeted by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 10 Nigerian soldiers have been killed and nine severely injured in an ambush by suspected Boko Haram fighters in restive northeast Nigeria, military sources said Thursday. Another 12 soldiers were missing after a column of troops on patrol was ambushed by the jihadists on Wednesday in Damboa district of Borno…
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…