LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 3,600 people have been killed in clashes between farmers and herders in Nigeria since 2016, Amnesty International said on Monday, blaming the government’s failure to punish the perpetrators for fuelling the violence. The international human rights organisation said more than 2,000 were killed in 2018 alone, while the bloodshed had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people were reported to have been killed as petrol station caught fire in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, on Monday. An eye witness reported that the station caught fire as workers offloaded gas at the plant, adding that shops and houses were also burnt. Acording to him, the fire, which…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 30 persons were killed and dozens missing when Boko Haram insurgents ambushed a convoy of vehicles along the Dikwa-Ngala Road in Ngala Local Government Area Borno State yesterday, sources said. Security agents could not be reached for statement up to the time of filing this report. However, a top…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Mr. Chinaka Adoezuwe was reportedly shot dead while trying to prove to his client the efficacy of a bullet repelling charm. The native doctor, 26, had been approached by one of his clients Chukwudi Ijezie to prepare a bullet repelling charm for him. A witness, John Madu, said that Chukwudi Ijezie, had…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Blasts have killed at least 20 people in northeast Nigeria, police said, while residents said the toll was even higher in the largest attack for weeks in a region blighted by the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency. In an emailed statement issued on Sunday, the police said 20 people had been killed…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Deep Kamara, the country manager of Dangote Cement Ethiopia, has been killed by gunment. According to reports by the Addis Standard, Reuters and several other Ethiopian news outlets, Kamara was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon by unknown assailants near the Dangote Cement Factory located some 85 kilometers west of Addis Ababa in…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer were reported tohave died s died on Saturday when a building collapsed in Agege area of Lagos State. Many other persons were said to have been injured in the incident, Eagles Online reports. According to available information, the building is located in Abeje area of Agege. The injured have been…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS) – A Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ija-Ugbo area of Arogbo Ijaw, Ese-Odo Local Government Area of Ondo State on Tuesday collapsed, killing a pregnant woman, Dali Gunuboh, and five other persons. The names of other victims of the building collapse were given as Morenike Bubuma, Margret Goloba, Mayama Goloba and…
