LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have abducted three ladies traveling from Lagos State to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital. The victims identified as Okuboere, Seifefa and Amara were reportedly abducted by suspected herdsmen along the Hausa-Fulani settlement in Okada area of Edo State. Princess Grace, who resides in Bayelsa, identified the victims as her sisters-in-law and…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari told Fulani herders in the Southern parts of the country not to obey the quit order issued to them by the Northern Elders’ Forum (NEF). A statement issued on behalf of the President by the Senior Special Assistant, Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, in Abuja, on Tuesday, quoted the…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s deteriorating security situation took a turn for the worse Tuesday night in Abuja with the Northern Elders Forum NEF and the Coalition of the Northern Groups CNGs ordering Fulani herdsmen to leave the Southern parts of the country and return to the north where their safety and those of their cows…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) has defended the claim that herdsmen’s pictures are on the new international passport. The service said such claims by people in some quarters are not true and that every page of the passport has pictures representing various ethnic groups in the country. NIS strengthened its argument…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSANGERS)-A cross-section of Nigerians have reacted to the image of a herder and his cattle on Nigeria’s new passport. The new passport which was posted online by Apostle Suleman had an inscription of a herder and his cattle on it. This has since generated reactions from Nigerians online as they called out…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following widespread condemnation, outrage and threats from the Middle Belt and Southern states, the Federal Government entered what was apparently a panic mode on Friday on its decision to establish what it called Ruga settlements for herdsmen across the country. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, in a statement on Friday evening, distanced himself…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWRANGERS)-Security and defence intelligence expert, Group Captain Felix Iheanacho (retd.) has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led federal government on the dangers of the proposed Ruga settlement for herdsmen. “We have been seeing reactions. Most of the communities and areas where these settlements are proposed are already expressing resentment about the plan. “I,…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II of Benin has raised the alarm that criminal elements, including bandits and herdsmen, are building camps in forests within his kingdom. The Oba, who disclosed this when he met with Enigie (dukes) in his kingdom in Benin yesterday, urged them to…