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Woman Shots Dead Two Police Officers, Commits Suicide

LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two police officers in coastal Mississippi were shot and killed early Wednesday by a woman who they had talked to for nearly 30 minutes in a motel parking lot, authorities said. The woman also died. Amy Anderson, 43, was sitting in a parked SUV with a female child when the officers were […]

Dec 15 2022 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Driver Knocks Army General To Death In Lagos

LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Monitor General SEC 40 of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPPS), Kuru, Plateau State, Brig.-Gen. Audu Ogbole James, mni, has been killed by a careless driver. According to the Welfare Officer, SEC 40, ACM Kayode Olagunju, mni, General Audu Ogbole James was knocked down yesterday, Tuesday, November […]

Nov 16 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

Soul Korea: Over 151 Peoples Killed In Halloween Crowd Surge In Seoul

LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A raucous Halloween celebration in the swinging center of the South Korean capital morphed on Saturday night into a grim procession of bodies after at least 151 people were killed in the crush of a crowd stuck in a narrow roadway, officials said. Dozens more were injured, many of them seriously, according […]

Oct 31 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

Tears Flow As BRT Vehicle Crushes Trader, Apprentice, Wheelbarrow Pusher To Death

LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were confirmed dead and several others injured on Wednesday when a Bus Rapid Transit vehicle rammed into a market fence at Alapere in the Ketu area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the BRT, with number plate KSF-940XX, had a brake failure when the incident happened around 7am. It […]

Oct 27 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

Over 500 Dead, 1.4m People Displaced In Nigeria Floods

LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 500 people have died in Nigeria’s worst floods in a decade and 1.4 million others been displaced from their homes since the start of the rainy season, the government said. Floods caused by abundant rains and poor infrastructure have affected vast swathes of Africa’s most populous country sparking fears […]

Oct 13 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

Twenty Three Terrorists Killed As ISWAP, Boko Haram Renew Battle For Supremacy

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a renewed battle for supremacy between the two terrorist organisations, at least 23 Boko Haram insurgents were killed in an ambush by its affiliate, the Islamic State of the West African Province (ISWAP). This was reported shortly after eight terrorists, including a Commander simply identified as “Kundu,” were ambushed and killed […]

Sep 16 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

Two Stowaway Nigerians Killed, Others Thrown Overboard Rescued By Liberia Fishermen

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least two Nigerians have been reportedly killed and 12 others rescued while aboard the Ophelia Panana ship off the shores of Gbanken Beach in Grand Kru Town. The beach is about five kilometers from Grand Cess City. Those killed on the ship were identified as Frank and Osas Velurobo. According to […]

Sep 14 2022 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

Forty-Two Malian Soldiers Killed, Twenty Injured In Suspected Islamist Attack

LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-two Malian soldiers were killed and 22 injured in an attack near the town of Tessit on Sunday, Mali’s government said on Wednesday, blaming an Islamic State affiliate. It was one of the deadliest attacks in recent years for the Malian army, which has been battling a decade-long insurgency by militant groups […]

Aug 11 2022 | Posted in International,National | Read More »

‘Over 3,478 Nigeria Massacred, 2,256 Abducted In Seven Months Under Buhari’s Watch’

LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-At least, 3,478 people were killed while 2,256 others were abducted across the country from December 2021 to June 15, 2022, a tally collated by The PUNCH has shown. The figures were obtained from the daily incidents recorded by the Nigeria Security Tracker, a project of the Council on Foreign Relations, an […]

Jun 21 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

War Crime: Russian Soldier Who Killed Civilian Bags Life Sentence

LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Kyiv court Monday ruled that a 21-year-old Russian soldier who killed a civilian was guilty of war crimes and handed him a life sentence, in the first verdict against Moscow’s forces since their invasion. “The court has found that (Vadim) Shishimarin is guilty and sentences him to life imprisonment,” judge Sergiy […]

May 23 2022 | Posted in International,National | Read More »