LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested the sixth person allegedly involved in the 2022 attack on St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo state. Over 40 worshippers lost their lives and scores more were left injured in the attack. The DSS is currently prosecuting five persons — Idris Omeiza…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Joint Security Team comprising the Police, Military and other security agencies have killed five suspected gunmen in Anambra State. This is coming as police, on Wednesday, rescued a woman detained by vigilante operatives in a community in the state over her husband’s indebtedness. These were revealed by spokesperson of the Anambra…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joint security forces, led by the Anambra State Police Command, have destroyed a camp allegedly operated by unknown gunmen in Nimo community, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state. The camp, located in a bush called Owa Land, was reportedly used as a launch pad for attacks across the state and a…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji on Friday rescued 24 abductees in the Kabugu Lamba, Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The troops received an intelligent report on a bandit hideout at Kabugu Lamba forest where kidnapped victims were concentrated, Channels Television was reliably informed. A military source told our correspondent that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force bombed a hideout of bandit warlord, Bello Turji, in Zamfara State on Saturday, targeting some of his loyalists. Details of the incident were sketchy at the time of this report but Daily Trust gathered that many bandits were killed. The bandits’ leader, who was said to be in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI have neutralised several bandits and destroyed their hideouts at Sokoto and Katsina forests in the North West, PRNigeria reports. A military source told PRNigeria that the mission was achieved through air strikes executed on October 5, 2021. This was after series of aerial surveillance missions had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits terrorising residents of Zamfara and forcing closure of schools have converted some classrooms to personal use in the North West State. Daily Trust findings show that dozens of primary schools in highly traumatised remote rural communities had been taken over by armed criminals. The schools were abandoned by the pupils and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Controversial Islamic cleric, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has accused the Nigerian government of knowing the hideouts of killer herdsmen and bandits. Gumi said the federal government identifies the bandits and killer herdsmen through its aerial view. The cleric made the allegations on a Channels Television Programme, Politics Today. Gumi said the government was…