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…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have invaded Yar Tsakuwa Village in Rabah Local Government Area of Sokoto State, abducting nine persons including the serving councillor of the area, Lawali Bello. Two wives and a daughter of the former councillor of the area, Alhaji Abdullahi Garba, were among the abductees, Daily Trust reports. A resident, Nazifi Abdullahi, said that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have abducted the regional accountant of Nigerian Customs Service in charge of Kano & Jigawa State, Mr Mahassan Lawal. Mr Lawal was kidnapped late on Friday night in his country home of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The officer was whisked away by gunmen who came in their…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna politician, Shehu Sani has called on religious leaders to intervene after a man allegedly divorced his wife following her release from kidnappers’ den. According to the former lawmaker, the man, from Zaria, Kaduna State, could not continue with the union on the suspicion that she might have been raped by the…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Baptist Convention (NBC) has declared that it spent a whopping sum of N250 million to secure the release of its students who were kidnapped from Bethel Baptist College, Kaduna, last year. It scored the fight against insecurity by the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration as below par, considering the number of…
LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A house wife, Maryam Abubakar, who allegedly supplies women to bandits at Galadimawa Forest in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been arrested. Maryam, who was arrested by the Intelligence Response Team, a special police unit fighting kidnapping, confessed that she had been luring women including her own daughters and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have reportedly killed a member of the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Honourable Rilwanu Aminu Gadagau, representing the Giwa West Constituency. This was also confirmed by a former Kaduna State Senator, Shehu Sani via his Twitter handle on Wednesday. Shehu, in a series of tweets, initially called for prayers for a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The air force has arrested Torsabo Solomon, a sergeant, in connection with the attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna. Two officers were killed and one other officer was abducted when the NDA was attacked by suspected bandits in August. The development caused an uproar in the country and raised…