LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has concluded plans to temporarily relocate the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation from Afaka to a safer location within the Kaduna metropolis. This was also as the government announced that it would now shoulder the responsibility of paying the school fees of all the 37 kidnapped and released students….
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A building housing the Assemblies of God Church in Ungwan Gaida community, near Kurmin Kaso, Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, has been set ablaze by armed bandits. At least eight persons were killed in the attacks while several houses were torched. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs,…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops and police operatives in the early hours of today, Friday, 7th May, 2021 engaged bandits in the Rigachikun axis of the Kaduna-Zaria dual carriage way in Igabi LGA. The bandits had earlier attacked a Fulani settlement belonging to a popular herder, Damina Kukumake, at Kukumake village Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundreds of Kaduna youths on Saturday blocked the entry and exit routes of the Kaduna-Abuja expressway to protest mass abductions and killings across the nation. The youths were said to have originated from Goni Gora village on the expressway where four persons were reportedly abducted on Saturday morning. The protest, which commenced…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five of the kidnapped students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization Afaka, Kaduna state, have been “recovered” by the Nigerian military. Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State disclosed this in a brief statement Monday. According to Aruwan, “The Nigerian military has informed the Kaduna State Government…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar El-Rufai, the seven-year-old son of Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State, who was enrolled in 2019 at the Kaduna Capital School, has been absent from school for several weeks till now, according to findings by SaharaReporters. SaharaReporters learnt that the boys absence from the school is strongly linked to the rising…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Monday seized three primary school teachers in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna, the government said, in a region wracked by banditry and kidnapping. The raid is the latest in a string of attacks on schools in Nigeria, coming just four days after 39 college students were kidnapped by a…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who abducted 39 students from the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in Afaka, Igabi local government area of Kaduna state have demanded N500 million for their release. Three parents of some of the abducted students have confirmed to our correspondents that the abductors have reached out and made a demand of…