LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people have been shot dead at a mosque on the same day that a church was attacked, say the authorities in Burkina Faso. It was during early-morning prayers that the gunmen surrounded the mosque in Natiaboani town. “The victims were all Muslims, most of them men,” a local resident told…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen on Friday broke into the house of the President General of Umuoji community in Idemili North LGA of Anambra State, Chief Silas Onyim and killed him. The community leader, who is popularly known as Chief Sly, was later discovered naked in the pool of his own blood, inside a bathtub…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The father of former House of Representatives candidate from Anambra State, Jude Oguejiofor was alleged to have ‘fainted and died’ on hearing the news that his son abducted by gunmen was killed. Mr Oguejiofor hailed from Orsumoghu in Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra but lived in Nnewi in Nnewi North…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a moving tribute penned down by Abia State Governor, Alex Otti following the horrific death of his bosom friend, Herbert Wigwe, the governor revealed the real reason why Sola Faleye stepped down from that ill-fated Chopper that claimed the life of his boss in far away America. ENigeria News had earlier…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Widows of military officers who died in the Hercules C130 military jet that crashed in Lagos on December 26, 1992, have called on the Nigerian military and the Federal Government to pay them their late husbands’ entitlements. The PUNCH reports that the military-transport plane crashed soon after takeoff from Lagos, killing all…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid speculations of assassination, the Inspector General of Police, (IGP), Kayode Egbetokun, has taken over the investigation into the circumstances that led to the murder of a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Daniel Adefemi Okunade. Okunade, a top ranking officer in the Internal Audit Department of CBN, was shot…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed groups have killed at least 160 people in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said on Monday. The toll marked a sharp rise from the initial figure reported by the army Sunday evening of just 16 dead in a region plagued for several years by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A business woman in Gboko Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state identified as Mrs. Nguhemen Sesugh has been reportedly murdered by conmen who also buried her remains in a shallow grave. It was gathered from a source in Gboko that the deceased who before her death traded in bags of rice was…