LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Straddling a caravan route to the Sahara, the city of Sokoto has since ancient times been a major trading hub in Nigeria’s extreme northwest savannah. But a surge in attacks and mass school kidnappings by criminal gangs, known locally as bandits, has dealt the region a terrible blow, making farming and trading…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NSC) seized no fewer than 202 motorcycles from suspected bandits and other criminals in Katsina State between August and September. The Acting Controller of the state command, Alhaji Chedi Wada revealed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Katsina. Chedi said…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian authorities imposed a communications blackout on Monday in several parts of Sokoto state as a crackdown against armed kidnappers in the country’s northwest region spreads. Gangs of armed men seeking lucrative ransom payments, known locally as bandits, have spread across northwestern Nigeria over the past year, kidnapping more than 1,000 students…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Major CL Datong, who was abducted when bandits broke into the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) in Kaduna, last month, has regained freedom. Two senior officers were gunned down in the incident which happened on August 24, 2021 On Friday night, Deputy Director Army Public Relations 1 Division, Nigerian Army, Colonel Ezindu Idimah,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara state Hassan Attahiru has been kidnapped. The first-class chief was abducted while travelling along Kaduna – Abuja highway Tuesday’s evening A police personnel was said to have been killed during an exchange of fire with the bandits. It was gathered that only the emir was abducted…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The closure of many markets across the North West is taking a heavy toll on bandits. At least four governors closed markets in their states as part of measures to check banditry. Few days after the closure of markets in some rural areas in Sokoto, bandits demanded food to release their captives….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits on Saturday night abducted the wife and two children of the Katsina State lawmaker representing Bakori Local Government Area at the State House of Assembly, Dr. Ibrahim Kurami. The bandits, it was gathered, stormed the residence of the lawmaker in Kurami village in Bakori Local Government Area…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted many students of Kaya Junior Secondary School in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Witness revealed that the gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school on Wednesday afternoon, shooting sporadically. “There was an abduction of students just now in Kaya town, Maradun Local…