LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed men have kidnapped dozens of people during an attack on a mosque and surrounding villages in Nigeria’s central Niger State, survivors and police officials say. The raiders stormed Kpenya Mosque in the Dekara district of Borgu Local Government Area at around 2pm (13:00 GMT) on Friday, after first attacking the…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Drought-stricken Namibia plans to cull over 700 wild animals, including 83 elephants, and distribute the meat to people struggling to feed themselves. The environment ministry says the cull will take place in parks and communal areas where officials believe animal numbers exceed available grazing land and water supplies. In addition to elephants,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than sixteen travellers have been killed by unknown gunmen on Wednesday along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on their way back to Kano from a business trip. It was learnt that the sixteen travelers , from Dambatta local government, were conveyed in a private vehicle and met their untimely death on the Abuja-Kaduna…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Militants have killed at least 40 people on a farm in Borno state in northeast Nigeria, three sources told Reuters on Saturday. The attack, at Kwashebe Zamarmari in the Jere local government area, happened late morning local time as the workers were harvesting rice, according to a village leader, a local fighter…
