LAGOS ARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven children have been reported dead and several others injured following a stampede in Shimfida village of Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. Sources say the fear of a terrorists’ attack sent residents into a frenzy, leading to the casualties recorded. Although the police are yet to confirm the incident, a…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One teenager was killed and two others are in critical condition following a shooting outside of an Iowa high school Monday, according to authorities. Police responded to a report of “multiple shooting victims” on the school grounds of East High School in Des Moines around 2:48 p.m. on Monday afternoon. Police said…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Russia’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday that 497 Russian troops had been killed and 1,597 injured to date since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an invasion of Ukraine last Thursday. A military adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered a sharply different estimate hours later, saying that over 7,000 Russian soldiers had been…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Ghanaian Pastor preaching in a commercial bus has caused a stir with the claim he made. The yet-to-be identified man of God claimed that men who put on condoms before lovemaking have indirectly killed over 3000 people just by preventing their semen from entering a woman’s reproductive organ. Claiming that such men are…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded in an ambush by unnamed militants in a northern Benin park on Tuesday, the park’s management said in a statement on Wednesday. “In the afternoon of Tuesday Feb. 8, a team of rangers was ambushed in W National Park in Benin,…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun state police command has arrested two individuals for ritual killing in the state. The Osun state police spokesman said: ”at about 9:30 pm, a distress call was made by a hotel management where they had lodged. The management said a girl screamed twice and after that, no noise was heard…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than forty four journalists were brutally killed during 2021, according to National President of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Comrade Chris Isiguzo. He also revealed that besides the forty four journalists killed in Nigeria, scores have been declared missing even as others are under serious threats. Isiguzo spoke during…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have abducted a Department of State Services operative during an attack on residents in Abaji, Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Saturday. The hoodlums also killed a vigilante member during the incident which occurred overnight, PUNCH reports. The armed men were said to have invaded the community…