LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stampede at the residence of the Minister of Defence, Alhaji Bello Matawalle in Gusau, Zamfara State, has left one person dead and six others injured, security sources confirmed on Friday. Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency expert, stated that the incident occurred on Thursday when a large crowd gathered to welcome the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Properties worth millions of naira were destroyed in a fire at the Gusau home of the Speaker, Zamfara State House of Assembly, Hon. Bilyaminu Moriki on Sunday. In a statement issued by the Chief Press Secretary to the House of Assembly, Bello Madaro said no casualty was recorded but properties worth millions…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria (Reuters) -Gunmen in Nigeria kidnapped 35 people from a university in northwest Zamfara state on Friday, the governor’s spokesperson said, the first major abduction involving students this year. Armed gangs have plagued the northwest in recent years, kidnapping for ransom, looting and destroying communities and murdering civilians. Security forces’ attempts to…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have killed a businessman identified as Emeka Onyeji and kidnapped his teenage daughter, Precious, in Gusau, Zamfara State. It was gathered that the gunmen invaded Emeka’s residence in the Bayan NTA area of Gusau on Tuesday night, June 13, 2023, stabbed him to death with a sword and whisked away…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of elder statesmen in Zamfara State has raised alarm over the alleged indiscriminate release of arrested bandits and their collaborators by the authorities in the state. They urged the law enforcement agencies to stop the act, citing it as one of the factors responsible for the escalation of the insecurity…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven police personnel were killed by suspected bandits along the Tofa-Magami Road in the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An indigene of the area, Salisu Sani, told The PUNCH that the incident occurred about 6pm on Monday when the police personnel went to the area on patrol mission. Sani said,…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen have abducted two sons of a former Commissioner in Zamfara, (North West Nigeria), Alhaji Bello Dankande, and two others, including an official of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence (NSCDC). The Spokesman of the State’s Police Command, SP Muhammad Shehu, told newsmen in Gusau, the State’s capital that the gunmen…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Abubakar Namalika over the gruesome murder of Dr Enoch Okpara, a medical doctor in Gusau on June 13. Mr Usman Nagogo, State Commissioner of Police, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Gusau on Monday. He said that the suspect had already…