LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-U.S. forces killed a senior terrorist leader in an airstrike in Syria on Monday, according to military officials. U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the target of the strike, Abu Hamzah al Yemeni, was a senior leader of an al-Qaida-affiliated terrorist group known as Hurras al-Din. The leader was riding alone on a…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Russian military cargo plane crashed in the city of Ryazan southeast of Moscow, killing four crew members and injuring five others. The incident happened during a training flight on Friday, the defence ministry said in a statement quoted by local news agencies. The plane was on a training flight without cargo…
LAGOS JUNE 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An elephant in eastern India killed a 70-year-old woman and then returned to her funeral to trample her corpse. The incident occurred in Odisha state on Thursday, police said. Maya Murmu was at a tube well drawing water in Mayurbhanj district’s Raipal village when the wild elephant appeared out of nowhere. Authorities…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has been killed in the United State of America by a drunk driver just six weeks after arriving in the state. Tributes from family and friends have poured in for the man identified as Patrick Ohanta, 45, who was said to have been hit and killed by a car…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A 41-year-old Nigerian, Obinna Igbokwe, on Wednesday night in Texas, United States, shot his wife, Tangela Igbokwe, killed her mother and fled to North Texas with their three-month-old son, Mansa, before finally killing himself. Igbokwe lived in Spring, Montgomery County of Dallas, Texas. According to the U.S. police, Obinna Igbokwe and his…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy hit parts of Damaturu, the Yobe State capital on Monday, as a heavy rainstorm left no fewer than five people were confirmed dead, with 41 persons sustaining various degrees of injuries. Wounded survivors of the storm, including the remains of the dead, were moved to the Specialist Hospital, Damaturu, according to…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos state police command has arrested a young man identified as Ifeanyi Njoku for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Precious Okeke, 24, in an estate at Badore, in the Ajah area of Lagos State. The live-in lovers stayed on Oke Street and it was alleged that Njoku killed his girlfriend for ritual…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdulkareem Ojonla Jimoh, a Federal Road Safety Corps personnel have been killed by the driver of an 18-seater passenger bus on the Sagamu-Ore-Benin highway. The bus driver, whose white Toyota Hiace Bus with registration number NEM 618 AA was said to have crushed the FRSC officer, also ran over a motorist whose…
