LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven traders, including two vigilantes were killed by bandits who opened fire on traders at a market square in Galadimawa village of Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. This was contained in a statement issued by the Commissioner for Internal security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, yesterday., who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has lamented that a sizeable number of officers of the Nigeria Police Force who should be fighting criminal elements in the country are involved in non-police duties like carrying the bags of the wives of Very Important Personalities. El-Rufai said he is frustrated over the killings in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant woman in Rigachikun, Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State has been shot dead following shootout between suspected kidnappers and security operatives. Details of the incident which reportedly took place on Tuesday evening remained sketchy as of press time. The woman’s husband, it was gathered, was abducted. The woman has…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Udawa farming community in Kaduna state was thrown into fear as bandits kidnapped 16 farmers, including children, on bush paths to the farm, Vanguard newspaper reported Sunday. Uduwa village is located along the Birnin Gwari highway in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. “They were on their way to the…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed 21 villagers in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, police said Friday, in the latest deadly violence between ethnic Fulani herders and local farmers over grazing and water rights. Community leaders however said a higher total of 33 people were killed in the assaults on the remote five villages which took…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, on Wednesday said he was still under isolation for testing positive to COVID-19 and is yet to be cleared of the disease. El-Rufai, who also chaired a virtual meeting of the State Executive Council for the first time since he was diagnosed, said he…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The First Lady of Kaduna State, Hadiza Isma El-Rufai, has solicited prayers from Nigerians for her husband, Governor Nasir El-Rufai, who announced on Saturday that he had tested positive for Coronavirus (COVID-19). Hadiza solicited the prayers moments after her husband posted a video on Twitter to announce his status. She said in…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2023 presidential campaign for the deposed Emir of Kano, Muhammad Sanusi kicked off in Kaduna at the weekend. Addressing journalists in Kaduna, the national coordinator of the ‘Sanusi Lamido Sanusi project 2023: All Nigerian Youth Projects’, Suleiman Shuaibu Shinkaffi, appealed to all other Nigerians nursing presidential ambition in 2023 to be…
