LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A resident of the troubled Gaa- Osibi community, Alagbado, Ilorin, Kwara State, Lukman Abiodun, whose three children were abducted last Wednesday has put up his two houses for sale to enable him gather the N20 million ransom the kidnappers demanded. Abiodun, LEADERSHIP gathered, has been able to get N2 million from the…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army has dismissed the social media reports alleging the complicity of its troops in the recent kidnap of the Prelate of the Methodist Church of Nigeria, Samuel Kanu-Uche. The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Onyema Nwachukwu, said this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja. Nwachukwu said the insinuation that…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Terrorists who attacked the Abuja-Kaduna train service AK9 at Dutse village on Monday night, killing eight persons, have phoned one of the families of the missing passengers The bandits told the family that their daughter and other passengers were with them in their camps. Speaking with LEADERSHIP, a source, who is close…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has disclosed that so far this year, there have been 20 attacks on schools in Nigeria, with 1,436 children abducted, 16 children dead with more than 200 children still missing. UNICEF is press statemeny signed by Communicatin Specialist, Samuel Kaalu lamented that no fewer than 37 million…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Witnesses to the shocking public kidnapping of Nigerian and British national Nnamdi Kanu—head of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) group—told The Daily Beast that the separatist leader was stepping out of his car at an airport when a group of heavily armed men forcefully seized him to arrange his transfer to…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna State Government has ordered for the closure of 13 private secondary schools over security threat as a result of the abduction of 140 students of Bethel Baptist High school in the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director-General, Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance Authority, Mrs Umma K….
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, has fingered the watchman of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, where about 300 students were abducted last week, of being complicit in the incident. He also said repentant bandits held talks with their unrepentant counterparts and were able to secure the release of the schoolgirls. Matawalle spoke…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara State Governor, Bello Matawalle, on Sunday said he had many revelations to make about the attack on Government Girls’ Secondary School, Jangebe on Friday, when over 300 students were abducted. The governor, who stated this when 17 Emirs in the state paid him a sympathy visit over the abduction of…