LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Not a few residents of Ketu-speaking villages in Yewa North Local Government Area, Ogun State were brutalised by soldiers who escorted herdsmen to graze in the communities, prompting residents and monarchs to cry out to the military and state government for help, KUNLE AKINRINADE reports. Seye Mulero panted like a rat that…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Four suspected kidnappers were feared killed and four soldiers shot during a gun battle between the kidnappers and soldiers along Owo /Ifon road in Ose local government area of Ondo State on Friday. A source who disclosed this to our reporter said the suspected kidnappers had held some people who were travelling…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soldiers stationed at the Kugbo checkpoint on Thursday beat up five personnel of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Directorate of Road Traffic Services (DRTS) popularly called VIO for impounding a vehicle belonging to their senior colleague. The incident took place at about 2:15pm when the DRTS officers resumed work for afternoon traffic…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police officers at Batsari Local Government of Katsina State on Thursday protested against their unpaid allowances. According to Katsina Post, the police officers took to the streets and blocked a major road linking to Batsari market. According to the report, soldiers eventually arrived at the scene to remove the barricade, a move…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Joint Security Task Force has arrested suspected kidnappers following a raid at two communities in Edo state,namely Upper Sakponba and riverine Community. It was gathered that all the suspected kidnappers were males. They were arrested around Ogbemudia oil palm plantation barely 24 hours after the military commenced a seven-day…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Commission for Persons with Disabilities (NCPD) has revealed that it has integrated about seven hundred ex-military personnel, who had their limbs amputated and eventually dismissed from the service due to the Boko Haram insurgent. The NCPD, which revealed this on Thursday during its 2021 budget defence at the National Assembly,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Soldiers manning the gate at the Military Hospital in Ikoyi have stopped the Lagos judicial panel on #EndSARS from assessing the hospital’s mortuary. The panel, unannounced, on Friday went to the hospital on investigation into the shooting at Lekki tollgate where 15 protesters were reportedly killed. Witnesses of the Lekki shooting accused…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Defence Headquarters’ Director of Information, Maj. Gen. John Eneche has addressed a press conference on the Lekki Toll Gate shooting which many said was perpetrated by soldiers. Commenting on report of soldiers shooting the protesters, he described it as mere allegations as some military analysts had dismissed as untrue. Eneche who…