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,…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Five persons have been confirmed killed and four others in critical condition after a yet-to-be-identified motorist rammed into dancers during a New Year party organised by some friends at Akinmori community, in the Afijio Local Government area of Oyo State. PUNCH Metro gathered that trouble started when one of the organisers was…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A truck driver has fled after killing four passengers when he drove against traffic along the Lagos-Abeokuta highway. The crash occurred at the early hours of Thursday at Obada Oko, involving 14 persons – nine male adults and five female adults. The Ogun State command of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC)…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A soldier of the 25 Task Force Brigade in Borno ran amok on Thursday and shot a female humanitarian aid worker to death while injuring a UN pilot. The soldier also killed one of his colleagues who tried to disarm him. Reports said he would have taken more lives, but for the…
A housewife identified as Mrs. Adeola Adewale has been killed by a cooking gas explosion which occurred on Monday morning in Kwara. The sad incident occurred in Omu-Aran, headquarters of the Irepodun Local Government Area of Kwara State. The incident, according to the state Fire Service, occurred at Tabernacle 2c Area, Egbe Garage in Omu-Aran,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-When 17-month-old Nadira fell sick with a cough and flu, her mother Agustina Maulani bought her some paracetamol cough syrup from a health centre in south Jakarta. “I gave her medicine every four hours, because her fever refused to go down. She would recover, but then have a fever again. In the…
iri Prison LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Convicted actor and an inmate of the Nigerian Correctional Service facility in Kirikiri, Olarewaju Omiyinka James alias Baba Ijesha may be doing time at the prison for a despicable act of child molestation but among his inmates he has become something of a hero. Baba Ijesha was said to have…