LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen killed at least 48 people in attacks on three villages in northwest Nigeria’s Zamfara state, a local official and residents said Sunday. Northwest and central Nigeria have been terrorised for years by criminal gangs who raid and loot villages, steal cattle and carry out mass abductions of residents for ransom. “A…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Terrorists, who kidnapped locals at Anguwan Bulus in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, have reportedly killed three of the victims and threatened to kill more unless ransom is paid. The bandits attacked the Anguwan Bulus community killing one local and abducting several others. They also attacked neighbouring communities like Juji,…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria‘s President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed there will be “no mercy” for gunmen who killed more than 150 people in a series of weekend attacks in the country’s north. In some of the worst violence Nigeria has seen this year, armed gunmen on motorcycles raided and razed a group of villages in…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of the Gwagwalada Area Council of the FCT has been shot dead by bandits who attacked him on his way after conducting a business transaction. Also killed along with the Chairman were three of his members who were with him. Vanguard gathered that the…
LAGOS APRIL 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An expectant mother and her husband, a couple and two sisters are among those being held by terrorists who attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train, it was learnt yesterday. Aliyu Mahmud, a relative of the seven-month pregnant woman, was among the victims’ families who staged a peaceful protest at the Radio House in Abuja…
LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The son of DIG Ibrahim Mamman Tsafe (rtd), incumbent Commissioner of Security and Home Affairs in Zamfara, has been shot dead. Daily Trust understands that Tsafe’s son alongside three others were killed when bandits invaded Tsafe town, headquarters of Tsafe local government area of the state, on Sunday night. In recent time,…
By Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The threat of Malam Nasir El-Rufai, the Governor of Kaduna State, to bring in foreign mercenaries to fight terrorists hibernating in forests areas around Kaduna State if the Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari fails to tackle the terrorism head-on is not only aggrandizing, but distractionary and…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A 17-year-old boy, identified as Isah Hassan has on Wednesday confessed how he plucked the eyeball of his victim, Mustapha Yunusa, for making charms to disappear from gunmen and bandits in the forest where he goes to fetch firewood in Bauchi State. Hassan, an indigene of Tarauni local government of Kano State…