LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman allegedly killed her two children and stabbed her husband after he returned home at midnight before attempting to take her own life in Rongai, Kajiado County, Kenya. Christine Karimi, who was admitted at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), in critical condition, is accused of stabbing her husband, Rodgers Andere after…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck the Otuan Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State as a 10-year-old boy allegedly killed his 12-year-old friend with his grandfather’s pistol. According to an eyewitness account, the boys were reenacting scenes from a movie when the deceased claimed to have a spiritual bulletproof charm and challenged…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 13-year-old boy gunned down eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade school on Wednesday in a planned attack, prompting Serbia’s president to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership. Using two handguns that belonged to his father, the boy fired first at the guard and three girls in a…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 34-year-old man allegedly shot and killed his parents and their two friends at a home in Bowdoin, Maine, days after his release from prison, authorities said. Around 9:21 a.m. Tuesday, four people were found shot dead at the home: 72-year-old Robert Eger, 62-year-old Patricia Eger and 62-year-old Cynthia Eaton were found…
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-An infamous pro-Russian combatant turned propagandist, known by the pseudonym Vladlen Tatarsky, was killed in a St. Petersburg cafe on Sunday, in an explosion that injured at least 25 others, according to the Russian government. Footage captured on a cellphone just before the explosion showed Tatarsky examining a statuette of a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Josiah Godwin, a twenty-four-year-old, apprentice is currently cooling his feet in police custody after he allegedly killed his master in the Imafon community in Ondo state. Mr Godwin, who was arrested by detectives on Thursday, was alleged to have murdered Savior Joseph, who specialises in fixing POP/asbestos, and dumped his corpse…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A US air strike assisting government troops in Somalia has killed about 30 Islamist al-Shabab militants, the US military says. The operation happened near the town of Galcad, about 260km (162 miles) northeast of the capital Mogadishu. Over the past few days, the Somali army and al-Shabab militants have fought for control…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria on Friday confirmed the outbreak of a new infection of the nose and throat, otherwise known as Diphtheria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in a public health advisory issued Friday morning, confirmed that not less than 25 people have reportedly died from the disease in Kano State,…