LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 60 worshippers were reportedly abducted when bandits raided Emmanuel Baptist Church located in Kakau Daji in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The armed gang stormed the church during service on Sunday, shooting sporadically. The Christian Association of Nigeria ( CAN), Kaduna chapter Chairman, Reverend John Hayab, confirmed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS) – A telecoms blackout will be maintained in large swathes of northwest Nigeria because it is helping the armed forces crack down on bandits responsible for a wave of abductions and attacks, the country’s top general said on Thursday. All telephone and internet services were shut down in the whole of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen seized three student priests from a Catholic seminary in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna state, police and school authorities said Tuesday. The assailants stormed the Christ The King Major Seminary late Monday night and opened fire at the cafeteria where five of the students were sitting after dinner, according to the Rev. Joseph…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed Abubakar Abdullahi, the chairman of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders’ Association of Nigeria in Lere Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The attack happened in the early hours of Friday, the the Director of Media and Publicity of MACBN in Kaduna State, Ibrahim Bayero-Zango, confirmed the incident to our correspondent,…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Bala Na’Allah, representing Kebbi South, said that the killers of his son, Captain Abdulkareem Bala Na’Allah, a pilot, were not armed with guns. Captain Abdulkareem, a civilian pilot, was strangled and found dead inside his bedroom in his GRA residence, Malali, in Kaduna North Local Government Area on Sunday. The neighbour’s…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A leaked memo from Defence Headquarters on the assessment of the kidnap incident at the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has confirmed Daily Trust report which revealed that the bandits may have gained access into the academy through a lose barbwire fence along the Kaduna International Airport road in Afaka. The leaked memo,…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The military officer Major Christopher Datong abducted today at Nigerian Defence Academy, Afaka in Kaduna has been murdered. According to reports, his body was found on Tuesday evening, hours after he was captured by bandits. The abductors reportedly demanded N200 million to set him free. Datong who was from Pankshin in Plateau…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have attacked the permanent site of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, killing two officers and abducting one other officer. Although the authorities have yet to confirm the incident, a security source told Channels Television that the incident occurred in the early hours of Tuesday. The bandits who came in…