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Surge For PVC: INEC Deploys Additional 209 Machines To South Eastern States, Lagos, Kano

LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an effort to curtail the unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters and the challenges they face across the country, the Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to deploy additional 209 machines mainly to the five South Eastern States, Lagos and Kano where the […]

Jun 11 2022 | Posted in National | Read More »

2023 Presidency: Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Posters Flood Northern States

LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the race towards the 2023 General Elections continues to gather momentum, posters of former President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan have flooded some cities in Northern Nigeria. This has equally sparked reactions on social media, with some expressing excitement about the possibility of his re-election in 2023. In Gombe, some of the posters […]

Apr 27 2022 | Posted in State | Read More »

Reactions Trail Kano Sharia Police, Hisbah Order Of Headless Mannequins

LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in Kano, a Muslim-majority state in Nigeria, has raised eyebrows after it ordered shops to only use headless mannequins to advertise clothing. “Islam frowns on idolatry,” Haruna Ibn-Sina, the commander of the Sharia police known as the hisbah, told the BBC. “With the head on it looks like […]

Aug 16 2021 | Posted in National | Read More »

Ex-Nigeria’s Police Boss, Idris, Fingered In N250m Unapproved Contracts At Police Academy

LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has been asked to answer for about N250 million unapproved contracts as well as unremitted revenue at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, in 2018 when he was in charge of the Nigeria Police Force. Idris served as the Inspector General between June 2016 […]

Jun 21 2021 | Posted in National | Read More »

Security Operatives Intercept Bags Loaded With Assorted Foreign Currencies In Kano Airport

LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security personnel attached to the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano have intercepted bags filled up with different foreign currencies brought in on a foreign airline. The incident, which occurred Thursday according to some insider’s at the airport, followed he arrival of an Ethiopian Airlines flight at about 2pm. The source, who […]

Jun 18 2021 | Posted in National | Read More »

Lady Who Hacked Her Two Kids To Death In Kano Pleads Not Guilty

LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, who hacked her two children to death in Kano has pleaded not guilty before a magistrate court. Recall that Hauwa, a health worker, killed her two children, Irfan Ibrahim, 6 and Zuhura Ibrahim, 3, and injured a niece, Aisha Sadiq, 10, at Diso Quarters in Gwale Local […]

Dec 25 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Historian, Nineteen Other Volunteers Willing To Go To Jail For Nigerian Teenager

LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A teenager was sentenced to 10 years in jail because he cursed while speaking about Allah Piotr Cywiński, a professional historian and director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, is willing to take the place of a teenager who was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Sharia court in the northern […]

Sep 28 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Kano Lawmakers Adopts Castration As Punishment For Rape

LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Kano State Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted castration as punishment for rape in the state. The adoption initiated a process to further amend the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), Law of 2014. Nuraddeen Alhassan (APC-Rano) had sought a review of the law as he stated that the present 14-year jail […]

Jul 16 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Police Arrest Three Female With 818 Rounds Of Ammunition Hidden In Half Bag Of Rice

LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police on Wednesday said they had arrested three female suspects over failed alleged attempt to move 818 rounds of live ammunition from Kano State to Bayelsa State. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja. Mba said one of […]

Jun 25 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »

Ganduje Vows To Continue Probing Former Kano Emir, Sanusi II

LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has revealed that the state’s Public Complaints and Ant-Corruption Commission will continue with probe proceedings against former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. The governor made this known yesterday during a media interactive session held at Africa House, Government House, Kano. The governor was responding […]

Jun 16 2020 | Posted in National | Read More »