LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed the women leader of the Labour Party (LP), Victoria Chintex in Kaura LG of Kaduna State. Publicity secretary of the LP in southern Kaduna senatorial zone, Edward Buju revealed this in a statement on Tuesday. According to Buju, she died on Monday after gunmen invaded her residence in Kaura…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A popular southeast cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Iyiorji, has been killed by the so-called ‘Unknown Gunmen’ wrecking havoc in Nigeria’s southeast region. POLITICS NIGERIA learnt that Sheikh Iyiorji died on Monday night at the Federal Teaching Hospital Abakaliki after he was attacked by some ‘Unknown Gunmen’ at his residence in Isu, Onicha Local…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Thursday killed a lawyer, Benedict Azza, during a night attack in Gusau, the Zamfara State capital city. PREMIUM TIMES gathered that Mr Azza, the Principal Associate at Benedict Torngee Azza and Associates was killed around 10:00 p.m in Unguwar Saminaka behind the Federal Road Safety Corp headquarters in Gusau. The…
LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Director with the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS, Alhaji Mohammadu Kudu Lawal, has been killed by gunmen who attacked the vehicle in which he was traveling in the Saminaka village of Lapai local government area of Niger state on Sunday night.Another staff of the FIRS whose name was not known was…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Nigerian men, Tosin Amos Arowoshegbe and Eze, lost their lives on Saturday following a shooting at a nightclub in the city of Vaughan, Ontario, north of Toronto in Canada. York Regional Police detectives said officers responded to report of a shooting at ATL Lounge, a restaurant and nightclub in the early…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The last time a current or former Japanese prime minister was shot and killed was 90 years ago. It’s a measure of just how rare and shocking gun violence is in the country, where ownership of firearms is strictly controlled. The blast that felled Shinzo Abe on Friday — with a homemade…
LAGOS MAY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Palestinian American journalist was killed on Wednesday while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank — and news network Al Jazeera claims the reporter was shot dead by Israeli forces. Shireen Abu Akleh, a 51-year-old U.S. citizen who was working for the Qatar-based news outlet’s Arabic language channel, was…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The long and on-going communal clash between Agbo community in Cross River State and Esan community in Edo State in Nigeria has left a 39-Years- old man dead over cultural infractions in Port-Harcourt, Rivers state. The victim, Mr Effiong Itang was reported to have been short dead by unknown gunmen in Port…