LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two armed men, including one who wielded a knife, attacked Mali’s interim president Assimi Goita on Tuesday in the great mosque in the capital Bamako, an AFP journalist saw. The attack took place during prayers for the Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha. Goita has since been taken from the scene, according to…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person has been reportedly killed and many injured when armed masquerades invaded a mosque at Oluode Aranyin area of Osogbo capital of Osun. Our correspondent gathered many worshippers were injured during the attack on Sunday evening. An eyewitness disclosed the reason for the invasion by the masquerades was not yet known,…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Rabe Ibrahim Jibia, Senior Special Assistant to Governor Aminu Bello Masari on Security Matters (Daura Zone), is dead. Daily Trust gathered that Jibia slumped and died at Banu Kumassie Juma’at Mosque, GRA Katsina, while attending the wedding Fatiha of the daughters of the Special Adviser to the governor on Security Matters,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have invaded a mosque and abducted 17 persons at Gwargwada-Sabo community in Gadabuke development area of Nasarawa State. It was gathered that among those kidnapped were a library staff with the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, three women and 13 other male adults. A resident of the community,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed about 15 people in an attack on a mosque in northern Burkina Faso during prayers on Friday evening, a security source and a local official told Reuters. The gunmen entered the mosque in the village of Salmossi in the Oudalan region bordering Mali and opened fire, the two sources said…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS )-Christians in Kiagbodo community, the hometown of elder statesmen, Senator Edwin Clark, in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State have partly destroyed a mosque being built by an indigene, Mallam Abubakar Korokeme. The mosque was attacked overnight last Sunday. The Muslim Rights Concern accused Clark of spearheading the anti-Muslim campaign…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The New Zealand Police are investigating death threat sent to Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, on social media, local media reported on Friday. A Twitter post containing a photo of a gun and caption “You are next’’ was sent to the prime minister. The post had been up for over 48 hours before the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram, has bombed a Mosque in Maiduguri, killing eleven persons. The commissioner of police in the state, Damian Chukwu, who confirmed the incident, said it happened around 5:40am. He said two suicide bombers, accompanied by a gunman, infiltrated the mosque located at Kushari village behind old CBN…
