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 JUNE 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States urged Nigerian authorities on Friday to investigate an air strike that Reuters reported killed dozens of cattle herders earlier this year and highlighted a pattern of deadly aerial assaults. Dozens of ethnic Fulani herders died in a Jan. 24 aerial bombing in the central state of Nasarawa, according to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-It’s 2 p.m. and Hannah Mgbede asks her husband if she can take her first break of the day from threshing rice so she can breastfeed their 18-month-old baby girl fastened to her back during the grueling work. Her husband Ibrahim Mohammed, 45, used to harvest as many as 10 bags of…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension yesterday enveloped communities in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory as hundreds of nomadic herders crossed Abuja-Kaduna highway into Sabon-Wuse in Niger State to camp there. This development forced some residents of Sabon-Wuse, a few kilometers away from Bwari Area Council, to stay at home in fear of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sunday Igboho yet again gets a knock from notable Nigerian as his approach in ending kidnapping and killings in Yoruba land is once again criticized by Seun Kuti, son of late Afrobeats legend, Fela Kuti. Seun sharing his opinion during an interview says Sunday Igboho’s ethnicity approach is unethical. He said criminality…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists were forced to either stop or slow down on some Abuja roads on Sunday as cows and their herders marched majestically on the roads exclusively marked for vehicular traffic. The roads affected were the Airport Junction Road and Jayi Road, both in the Federal Capital Territory.