LAGOS APRIL 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than five youths have been shot dead by soldiers of the Nigerian Army in Baka village in the Ardo-Kola Local Government Area of Taraba State. According to Daily Post, the youths, who were attending a wedding were riding motorcycles, but the soldiers opened fire on them early on Friday, on…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Drivers and commuters have continued to face a harrowing experience at the hands of daredevil kidnappers on the Ago-Auchi Road. The recent incident happened on Saturday, 20th March 2021, when a commercial bus was attacked at a bad spot between Igue-oke and Junction, in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State….
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Several videos have flooded the internet today, showing policemen from Lagos State Police Command, shooting directly at civilians in the Itire area of Surulere of the metropolis. The reason for the bloody confrontation has remained unclear as the Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Muyiwa Adejobi, has refused to…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The driver of a ride-hailing service, identified simply as Tade, recently lost his life to armed robbers, who shot him dead around Badore in the Ajah area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that a yet-to-be-identified customer requested Tade’s service to convey him to a destination in the state and he drove…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police used pepper balls and a dog on Udofia, responding to calls that a man was acting erratically. Police in Phoenix, Arizona have released body-camera video showing former NFL player Ekom Udofia being shot to death by officers at least 10 times. The shooting occurred on Nov. 30, and the bodycam footage…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspects in connection with the abduction of four policemen at Aba Tuntun village, Ijebu-Igbo, in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state. Some hoodlums had reportedly waylaid a team of policemen in the village on Thursday, abducted four of them and shot…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-33-year-old operative of the Department of State Services (DSS), Sadiq Abdullahi Bindawa, has been killed by his suspected abductors after receiving the sum of N5 million as ransom. The deceased, who until his death, worked with the intelligence department of the service in Abuja, was kidnapped on Saturday at his residence behind…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen, Saturday stormed Banigo Isile-Ogono community in Bonny Local Government Area of Rivers State, shot sporadically and abducted several persons in a gory operation. Some of the abducted victims are identified as Sunny Hart, Thomas Allison and Theophilus Ibiama, among several others. Chairman of Bonny Local Government Council, David Irimagha and…