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…
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…