LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a 15-year-old boy, Pelumi Sulaimon, have been thrown into mourning after soldiers attached to Operation MESA allegedly shot him dead around Makoko, in the Yaba area of Lagos State. According to residents in the area, the soldiers were hired by political thugs to carry out a reprisal on their…
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army on Friday said Lieutenant PP Johnson, a female soldier abducted by gunmen on Monday, has not been released by her captors. Johnson, a newly commissioned female Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army (NA), was kidnapped while visiting her grandmother in Aku-Okigwe in Imo State. In a viral video, one of…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen, suspected to be kidnappers, have killed a soldier and abducted a Lebanese engineer at Ogbonmo Ijebu-Owo, Owo local government area. Witnesses said the gunmen also killed driver of the Lebanese. The incident was said to have happened at about 5pm on Wednesday. Ondo police spokesman, SP Fumilayo Odunlami, who confirmed the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two children (boy and girl) of a serving soldier were on Monday knocked off from a motorbike to death by a vehicle allegedly driven by suspected internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys). The accident, which occurred in Auchi, Edo State, also claimed the life of the motorbike rider, who was conveying the children home…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five rangers and a soldier were killed and 10 others wounded in an ambush by unnamed militants in a northern Benin park on Tuesday, the park’s management said in a statement on Wednesday. “In the afternoon of Tuesday Feb. 8, a team of rangers was ambushed in W National Park in Benin,…
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 DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command says two bodies have been recovered while a gunshot victim is receiving treatment as efforts intensify to rescue one Hassan Mills, a foreigner who was kidnapped by gunmen. Mills was abducted at about 5pm on Saturday from Panorama Farm Mekun in the Oke Alaro area of Ibadan,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner for Youth and Sports in Oyo State, Seun Fakorede, has said that soldiers seen in a viral video assaulting pedestrians in Ibadan, the state capital, have been arrested. Fakorede said this in a post on Twitter One soldier was filmed on Sunday flogging a lady for seemingly dressing indecently, while…