LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Violent attacks targeting Nigeria’s election commission offices are raising concerns about the security of the West African country’s upcoming elections in February. In the latest attack, assailants in southeastern Imo state set fire on Sunday to an office of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission. Nearly 50 of the commission’s offices already…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), insists the vast number of unemployed youths in the North-East region, currently being recruited into terrorism, would be transformed into the engine room of the nation’s economy. Obi, who has hinged his economic transformation of Nigeria on the vast area of land in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen in Nigeria killed a dozen worshippers, including an imam, and kidnapped several others from a mosque on Saturday night, local residents said on Sunday, in the latest attack by armed gangs in the north of the country. Armed gangs, known as bandits, attack communities where security is stretched, killing people or…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governors of the 36 states have accused the Federal Government of abandoning its duty of addressing the security challenges crippling economic activities in the country. The governors, under the auspices of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, said the rising level of poverty among Nigerians was a consequence of the biting effect of insecurity…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Three siblings, a girl, and two boys have been killed in Kaduna State after their parents failed to pay an N2 million ransom to suspected bandits on Wednesday. The little girl, Blessing Onwe with her two brothers were abducted by bandits alongside four others at Oil Village, a suburb of Kaduna Metropolis…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of armed bandits were killed in a military operation spanning two days in a forest near a community called Gadar Zaima in Bukkuyum Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Daily Trust Saturday has learnt from residents. The successful operation that led to the recovery of more than 100 motorcycles and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abdullahi Abubakar, an Islamic cleric in Plateau state, is one of the 437 persons nominated by the federal government to receive national honours. Abubakar has been nominated to receive the award of member of the order of the Niger (MON). The awards will be presented by President Muhammadu Buhari on October 11…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Five persons, comprising four male adults and a house wife, drowned in an attempt to escape being kidnapped by bandits at Chakumi village in Gurdi ward of Abaji area council of Abuja. It was reported that Chakumi shares boundary with neighboring Daku village through river Gurara in Dobi ward of Gwagwalada area…
