LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A group of vigilantes otherwise known as Yan Sakai on Friday stormed Dansadau market in Zamfara State, where they executed several suspected bandits. The Yan Sakai mostly from Ruwan Tofa and some other neighbouring communities invaded the market and killed the suspects to retaliate Thursday’s killing of three farmers in Ruwan Tofa….
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed Abba Abbey Gidan Haki, the personal aide to former Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aliyu Wamakko. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Senator Wamakko, Bashir Rabe Mani, who confirmed the incident said that Abbey,50, was abducted on Thursday night, March 18. His corpse…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some students who were studying at a secondary school in Damaga community, Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State, fled on Wednesday when armed bandits struck. Residents said dozens of unidentified armed men arrived on motorcycles and opened fire immediately. At least 13 people were reportedly killed in the attack while cows…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 100 miners operating between Anka and Maru Local Government Areas of Zamfara have been abducted by bandits, the Emir of Anka, Alhaji Attahiru Ahmad, has disclosed. Ahmad, who is also the Chairman of the state Council of Chiefs, made this known in Gusau on Tuesday when the Chief of…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior official of the Nigeria Customs Service has explained how operatives offered bandits seven bags of seized rice to save themselves from the criminals. Comptroller Aliyu Mohammed, who is the Coordinator of the Sector 4 Command of the Joint Border Patrol Team in the North West, narrated how the incident occurred…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have again abducted over 60 persons and set ablaze houses and farm produce in Ruwan Tofa village, in Maru local government area of Zamfara state. The attack comes a few days after 279 abducted Jangebe School Girls were rescued through the state government’s peace initiative. A source who has confirmed…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have terrorised communities, attacking villages, pillaging, raping, stealing cattle, ambushing travellers and kidnapping people. Groups have also turned to mass kidnapping, seizing hundreds of students in a string of raids on schools — apparently emulating tactics used by jihadists hundreds of kilometres (miles)…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ condemned in the strongest of terms the remarks made on Arise TV last Wednesday by Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi where he labeled Journalists as criminals for calling bandits criminals. A press statement signed by Chris Isiguzo, National President of NUJ stated that the unnecessary and…