LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Where is Amotekun?, That is the question that is on the lips of so many people after the series of attacks that happened in Ondo state this week. Earlier in the week, Olu Falae who is a former secretary to the Government of Nigeria under the Babagida regime, and a farmer based…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Defence Headquarters’ Director of Information, Maj. Gen. John Eneche has addressed a press conference on the Lekki Toll Gate shooting which many said was perpetrated by soldiers. Commenting on report of soldiers shooting the protesters, he described it as mere allegations as some military analysts had dismissed as untrue. Eneche who…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three new generational bank buildings have been set ablaze along the Admiralty Way in Lekki, Lagos. The three banks have been identified as Polaris, GTB and Access Bank branches. Business premises, shopping malls and shops have also been looted by suspected hoodlums in the area. These incidents happened on Tuesday night following…
LAGOS JULY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Women in Southern Kaduna, Kaduna State, have embarked on a nude protest over the incessant killings in the region. Southern Kaduna, predominantly occupied by Christians, has witnessed more ethno-religious violence than any region in Nigeria’s North. Last Sunday, 16 people were reportedly killed in an attack by yet to be apprehended gunmen….
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A coalition of Northern youth groups under the umbrella of Coalition Against Killings in Northern Nigeria (CAKIN) and the Northern Groups Coalition (NGC), have asked the federal government to stop the massive killings and raiding of communities in the North by bandits and Boko Haram insurgents. A former Executive Secretary of the…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram militants and their allies in ISWAP have struck at two local councils in Borno, killing no fewer than 20 soldiers and 40 civilians. Many people were also injured, reported Reuters, quoting residents and a civilian task force fighter. The attacks, in the Monguno and Nganzai local government areas, came just…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Vice-Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has condemned in the strongest terms the incessant killing of Nigerians on the country’s highways. Obi was reacting to the killing, on Thursday, of a popular Kogi-based businessman, Mr. Chuks Ofodile, along the Gegu-Koton Federal Highway…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria Head of States, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), on Sunday, led a prayer rally against killings, Boko Haram attacks in North East region and Nigeria at large. Gowon who is also the National Chairman of ‘Nigeria Prays’, speaking during the one-day prayer rally held in Bauchi, said the prayer rally was…
