LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have criticised former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, for mobilising friends to contribute N50 million towards the ransom for the release of the five remaining Mansoor Al-Kadriyar sisters kidnapped in Abuja. Pantami announced on Sunday via X account that an undisclosed friend volunteered to raise N50 million, following…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The criminal elements who abducted Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom for their release. The victims were abducted on Tuesday night, January 2, 2024, in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. According to the Daily Trust, the bandits later…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected insurgents in Nigeria killed 14 people in a rampage that began in a nightclub and proceeded into the surrounding neighborhood in northeastern Yobe state, residents said on Friday, two months after another attack in the state killed 40 people. The Boko Haram and splinter Islamic West Africa Province have waged an…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some villagers in Ondo State have begun to flee their homes, following incessant attacks suffered from the herdsmen-cum-bandits’ invasion. This has become the fate of residents in some villages in the state after longtime reported cases of attacks, kidnappings and sometimes – killings, which have continued to disrupt business activities, undermine food…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits, have again carved out a territory in Nigeria’s Niger State, imposing taxes on residents and some Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The bandits have reportedly occupied Dogon-Dawa, Kurege, Kangarewa and Mangoro communities among several others; “governing” the entire areas according to their own rules. They have so far…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed groups have killed at least 160 people in central Nigeria in a series of attacks on villages, local government officials said on Monday. The toll marked a sharp rise from the initial figure reported by the army Sunday evening of just 16 dead in a region plagued for several years by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 100 persons have been abducted by terrorists, locally dubbed as bandits, in a mass attack on residents of Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. It was learnt that the gunmen raided four villages which were; Mutumji, Sabongari Mahuta, Kwanar Dutsi and Unguwar Kawo, for failing to pay levies…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), have been said to have arrested two women suspected to be supplying bandits with arms and ammunitions in Kaduna, Niger and environs. The suspects identified as Rashida Umar and Rukaiya ladan, were arrested in Fadan-Karshe, Sanga Local Government Area in the Southern part of…