LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Borno State governor, Professor Babagana Zulum, on Tuesday announced a donation of a house and N20 million to the widow and children of Colonel Dahiru Bako who died from wounds sustained during an ambush on his troops while battling Boko Haram on Sunday morning. Bako, described by Zulum as a fallen warrior,…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five villagers fleeing from bandits have been feared drowned at Gurmana river in Shiroro local government area of Niger state. The drowned victims include three women and two children. The Nation learnt the villagers fled the community when they heard of bandit attacks in the adjoining villages. They boarded canoes to cross…
LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS) – The Nigerian military are unlawfully detaining boys and men at a rehabilitation centre for alleged members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram, Amnesty International said in a report released on Wednesday. In the latest allegations of rights abuses since Boko Haram began its insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast, Amnesty criticised…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thousands of children in face masks flocked back to school in Ivory Coast on Monday after the country became one of the first in West Africa to restart lessons after a two-month coronavirus shutdown. With a total of 2,376 cases and dozens of new infections each day, Ivory Coast has yet to…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anyone who engaged children under 12 yeas as domestic workers in Edo state now risks seven years imprisonment. Also, anyone convicted for recruiting or receiving any child or adult for force labour or even permitting any place or premises for such act, is liable to five years imprisonment and a fine of…
LAGOS MARCH 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An evangelical pastor was jailed for 34 years in Britain on Friday, after he was convicted of a catalogue of rape and sexual abuse against children and adults over two decades. A judge said self-styled prophet Michael Oluronbi carried out “one of the worst cases of sexual abuse” against children to come…
By Achiever Peterson, Jigawa LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department for International Development, an agency of the United Kingdom has spent over N12 billion on the improvement of the welfare, nutrition and livelihood of vulnerable and pregnant women and children in Jigawa and Zamfara states. The expenditure came through an unconditional transfer programme targeting pregnant and…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife of a Kaduna-based doctor, Philip Ataga has been found dead barely 7 days after she was kidnapped alongside her two kids. The deceased who was abducted after gunmen broke into their home at Juji community in Chikun local government area of the state, was reportedly killed over the failure of…