LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have imposed a ₦20 million levy on farmers in Gatakawa, a community in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State, before allowing them to harvest their crops. Families in the community are now selling belongings or borrowing money to pay the levies and access their farmlands. According to a source…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Zamfara terrorism kingpin, Bello Turji, has released 32 kidnapped persons and agreed to stop attacking farmers following a series of meetings with some Islamic clerics in his hideout. Musa Yusuf, a cleric popularly known as Asadus-Sunnah, disclosed the development at a religious gathering on Monday in Kaduna. Mr Yusuf said Mr Turji…
LAGOS JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandit leader, Bello Turji has reportedly threatened farmers around Zamfara state this rainy season. According to security expert, Bakatsine in a post on his X handle, Turji said farmers can only ‘peacefully’ go to their farms after paying N50m tax. This ransom is said to affect residents of Tsalaken Gulbi from Fakai…
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unspecified number of people have been reportedly killed in Barkuta community of Beji district in Bosso local government area of Niger State following a bloody clash between the native Gbagy and Herdsmen in the area. The clash which occured in the early morning of Tuesday also saw several people from the both…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Bola Tinubu on Monday expressed readiness to end the perennial farmers, herders crisis in the country. Tinubu vowed to draw up programmes that would end the crisis within two to three weeks. He spoke during the inauguration of the mechanised agricultural project in Minna, Niger State. The President, however, noted that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-More facts have emerged on how residents of Birnin Magaji in Zamfara State abducted wives of terrorists in retaliation to a recent kidnapping in the community. This was confirmed a youth leader of the community to PRNigeria, who said that the step was taken by the concerned youths due incessant attacks by…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) has given it’s nod to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike to deal with herders that are allowing their cows to graze in the city centre. It, however, raised concerns that the areas mapped out for the herders to graze…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 general election, Mr. Peter Obi, has assured the Northern region that his Presidency if elected will give the region premium place in his agenda because the wealth of the nation is in the region. Obi who titled his remarks, ‘The unmet Needs of…