LAGOS JULY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen were reported to have killed Senator Elisha Ishaku Abbo’s uncle and kidnapped his nursing stepmother Rifikatu Ishaku, in Adamawa.The unfortunate incident occurred Saturday July 13. In reference to an eyewitness, the gunmen stormed Abbo’s family house located in Muchalla ward of Mubi north local government area of the state on…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two mobile police officers were on Monday shot dead in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. On Tuesday morning, the police announced the arrest of nine suspects connected to the murder. The mobile police are considered a specialised unit within the Nigerian Police Force and are believed to be better trained and equipped than…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-two Soldiers and seven policemen were among no fewer than 310 Nigerians killed in May following the insecurity in the country, a report by a media tracking group, Nigeria Mourns, has revealed. According to the report released in Abuja on Thursday, Zamfara, Borno and Katsina States topped the list of the States…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ethiopian security forces have killed the man accused of orchestrating a failed coup d’etat in the northern Amhara region over the weekend. General Asamnew Tsige, who allegedly led the coup attempt, was shot on Monday near the Amhara state capital Bahir Dar, the prime minister’s press secretary, Negussu Tilahun, told Reuters news…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector – General of Police Intelligence Response Team ( IRT) has arrested most wanted kidnap kingpin School boy . Also arrested in company with him were six other members of his gang . They have been on the police wanted list ,but they were arrested after killing a Nigerian serving with…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The peace and tranquility hitherto witnessed by residents of Amukoko, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, has been replaced with fear, owing to an ongoing gang war among some youths in the area, which has already claimed 10 lives. At the moment, helpless residents are wearing expressions of fear, sadness…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten students have so far been mulled down and several others severely wounded in the raging cult war rocking the Federal Polytechnic, Nekede, in Imo State. The killings carried out by rival cult groups on vengeance mission, have been going on unchecked for one week. Victims were either shot or clubbed to…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than forty nine people were killed and dozens more injured in a mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand, Friday when a gunman opened fire inside two mosques. The shootings were categorized as a terrorist attack. “It’s something that we never expected to have happen here,” Christchurch MP Gerry Brownlee told…