LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran announced Saturday that its military “unintentionally” shot down the Ukrainian jetliner that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 aboard, after the government had repeatedly denied Western accusations that it was responsible. The plane was shot down early Wednesday, hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on two military bases…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A US Customs and Border Protection officer has been charged with murder after Texas police say he shot and killed his wife on Thanksgiving. Officers in League City, Texas, responding to a call about ‘multiple gunshots’ fired on Thursday arrived to find Dudley Bernard, 40, standing outside his home near the body…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)- – Gunmen from an IS-affiliated jihadist group on Tuesday shot dead 11 local construction workers in northeast Nigeria, a militia leader and resident told AFP. The fighters belonging to Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) opened fire on the workers as they were laying telecom fibre optic cables in Wajirko village,…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic in Amasiri community in Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State as a 50-year-old woman, Mrs. Chinyere Agwu, was shot dead by unknown assailant. According to Cornerstone News, the tragedy took place at the premises of Solution Ground International Church in the community at about 5 am last…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The employers of a Ghanaian undercover reporter have alleged assassination after he was shot dead on Wednesday night. Ahmed Hussein-Suale was said to be on his way home when gunmen on a motorbike opened fire on his vehicle in Madina area of Accra, shooting him dead in three live rounds. Mr Hussein-Suale…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man who felt slighted by his in-laws shot dead six family members including his two young children at a New Year’s Eve party before turning the gun on himself, the police said Tuesday. The mass shooting took place 10 minutes after midnight as Thai man Sucheep Sornsung joined his wife’s family…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person has been killed at NEPA polling center, Lokoja while two agents of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) were also shot by suspected political thugs in the ongoing by-election for Kogi/Koto-Karfe federal constituency. Report has it that some political thugs invaded the polling center to hijack the ballot boxes and one…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Executive Director, Sales and Marketing of Globacom, Okon Iyanam, was Wednesday night murdered in his hotel in Mowe, Ogun State by unknown gunmen. He was specifically identified by the gunmen and shot pointblank in the neck region. He died instantly. Below is how the killers gunned down a high flyer…