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…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman, simply identified as Maryam Bobbo, her husband and four children have been reported to be missing after the terrorist attack on the Kaduna-bound train on Monday night. It had been reported that terrorists, on Monday night, bombed the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks and attacked a train filled with passengers. According to a…
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 MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 20 people, including women and children, have drowned in the Guni-Zumba River while trying to escape attacks on their communities. It was gathered that the incident occurred on Wednesday morning when bandits simultaneously invaded Guni and Kurgbaku communities, forcing the residents to flee. Sources to Daily Trust that the…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna State Government said the military had rescued the Kaduna-bound train passengers trapped by terrorists Monday night. In a statement issued by the Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Mr Samuel Aruwan, the government said information about the rescue mission was conveyed to it by security operatives. Aruwan said the government…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven children have been killed in Niger in an air strike by the Nigerian army targeting “bandits”, a local governor and state media have said. Five more were hurt in the apparently accidental strike, the governor of Niger’s Maradi region told AFP. Governor Chaibou Aboubacar said four were killed instantly and three…