LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven people are feared to have died following a clash involving supporters of political parties in Kano state. TheCable had earlier reported that some youths, who identified themselves as Kwankwasiyya supporter paraded through the streets of Kano state with machetes and sticks. Kwankwasiyya supporters are persons backing Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command has arrested two men, parading themselves as journalists, for allegedly defrauding a rice trader of N33,000. The 30-year-old suspects, Mujahid Kabir and Abba Imam, were alleged to have, on February 2, 2023, generated a fake bank transfer alert of N33,000 to buy a bag of rice at…
LAGOS JANUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP), on Sunday, held its presidential rally in Kano. Peter Obi, flag-bearer of LP, and Datti Baba-Ahmed, his running mate, were present at the rally. Obi and Datti, alongside their wives, also attended a town hall meeting with women and students in the state before proceeding to Kano Pillars…
LAGOS JANUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria on Friday confirmed the outbreak of a new infection of the nose and throat, otherwise known as Diphtheria. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) in a public health advisory issued Friday morning, confirmed that not less than 25 people have reportedly died from the disease in Kano State,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21 (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in northern Nigeria’s main city has arrested 19 Muslims, accusing them of attending the wedding of a same-sex couple. The force raided the marriage ceremony in Kano after a tip-off, its spokesman Lawal Ibrahim Fagge said. The couple, who had not yet taken their vows, managed to flee…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP), in Kano State, on Saturday held a town hall meeting to fine tune strategies towards achieving landslide electoral victory in the forthcoming 2023 general elections. The Chairman of the party, Alhaji Muhammad Raji, while addressing party members and support groups, said the meeting was organized by House of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons in possession of 468 Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) have been arrested by the police. This was made known in a statement signed by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, on Sunday. According to the statement, the offenders; Nasiru Idris,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 23 persons were reported to have slumped among the crowd that generated gridlock during the Permanent Voter Cards’ walk show organised in Kano State by the North-West Tinubu/Shettima campaign support group on Sunday. The one-million-man march, which took place in Kano on Sunday, started from the Emir’s palace in…
