LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas leader and a linchpin between the group and terrorist affiliates in Iran and Hezbollah, was killed in an Israeli strike in the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency and the Hezbollah-linked al-Mayadeen media outlet. Arouri, who had a $5 million U.S. information bounty…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Uganda are holding a 110-year-old man over accusations of stabbing his 109-year-old wife to death for denying him conjugal rights. The Daily Monitor newspaper reports that Dominic Babiiha allegedly murdered Costansio Bakasisa with a billhook on Saturday at their matrimonial home in Kahunga, in the western district of Ntungamo. The…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian military attack that used drones to target rebels instead killed an unspecified number of civilians gathered for a religious celebration, authorities said Monday. The attack was the latest in recent errant bombings of local residents in Nigeria’s troubled regions. The attack on Sunday night in Tudun Biri village of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday called for a thorough investigation into a military drone attack that the state emergency agency in northern Kaduna state said killed at least 85 people at the weekend. The state’s governor, a religious leader and witnesses told Reuters on Monday that dozens of civilians were killed…
LAGOS DECEMBR 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be identified wheelbarrow pusher has allegedly stabbed a tax collector to death in Benin City, Edo State before killing himself. It was gathered that the incident happened on Friday on Mission road in Oredo Local Government Area of the state. The incident caused pandemonium among residents and shop owners who hurriedly closed shops….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Thai groom and former Paralympic athlete went on a drunken shooting rampage at his own wedding, killing his bride and three guests before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. Chaturong Suksuk, 29, an ex-soldier, married 44-year-old Kanchana Pachunthuek in the Wang Nam Khieo district in northeast Thailand Saturday. At the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has killed 20 mourners returning from the burial of victims of an earlier attack by the jihadists in north-eastern Nigeria, police say. The mourners died after their vehicle drove over an explosive device planted by the insurgents in Yobe state. On Monday, the militants shot dead 17…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A dispatch rider simply identified as Lucky was, on Friday, killed by the flood that ravaged a section of Dongo Gada village at Lokogoma axis, Abuja Municipal Area Council (AMAC). Eye witnesses said the indigene of Kaduna State was trying to navigate through the heavy flood when his motorcycle slipped into a…