LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected cult leader in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State, Kamoru Ofin, has been killed during a clash between rival cult groups. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the suspected cult group also reportedly cut off the two hands of the deceased, Ofin and took them away as a symbol of cult killing. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Two UN Nigerian fallen peacekeepers killed in Mali will be transported to their country after a memorial service by UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Mr Benjamin Olafaju, Head of Chancery at the Nigeria Permanent Mission to the UN told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…