LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A police officer attached to a bank in Oye-Ekiti has been shot dead in a robbery attack on Thursday. A girl, believed to be about five years old, was also killed by the gunmen while on her way back from school, Premium Times reports. The gunmen made away with money from the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least eight US citizens with ties to Utah — including two mothers and five children — were reportedly shot dead by drug cartels in northern Mexico on Monday. The victims, who hold dual US-Mexico citizenships, were allegedly caught in crossfire of two cartels in the Mexican border state of Sonora —…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Operative of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Awkuzu, Anambra State, was on Tuesday shot dead while accompanying his colleague to effect an arrest in the early hours of the morning by some policemen who mistook him for an armed robber. The incident, it was gathered, took place at Alor community in Idemili…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Mr. Chinaka Adoezuwe was reportedly shot dead while trying to prove to his client the efficacy of a bullet repelling charm. The native doctor, 26, had been approached by one of his clients Chukwudi Ijezie to prepare a bullet repelling charm for him. A witness, John Madu, said that Chukwudi Ijezie, had…
LAGOS MARCH 27T (NEWSRANGERS)-The graduate son of a Nigerian politician was shot dead near his family’s London home in the latest round of bloodshed in the capital. Abraham Badru, 26, who was given a police bravery award as a teenager for saving a woman from a sex attack, was gunned down in the street in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGRS)-A 13-year-old male suicide bomber has reportedly been shot dead close to the University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) in Borno state. A security source told TheCable that the bomber was gunned down by the security operatives who sighted him as he was trying to sneak into the premises of the university. “The sound…