LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano State Government has said that 29 people have been confirmed dead in the boat mishap that occurred in Bagwai on Tuesday while 14 others are still missing. The state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammad Garba, made the disclosure at a press briefing on Wednesday in Kano. He said that the 29…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Retired General Manager of the Nigeria Port Authority, NPA, Bashir M Abdullahi, has been kidnapped. Abdullahi was abducted from his farm located at Sumaila Local Area of Kano State Wednesday afternoon. Details about the abduction of the retired NPA GM are still sketchy at the moment, however, DAILY POST gathered that…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has revealed that the man who put himself up for sale for N20m has been arrested by the Kano State Hisbah Board. The Commander General of Kano Hisbah Board revealed in BBC Pidgin programme why the man was arrested. Recall that Naija News earlier reported that a young man who is…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver in the habit of tricking passengers to kidnappers has been arrested. The 25-year-old is part of an 11-man kidnap gang who use motor parks to perpetrate their nefarious activities. The gang comprising nine men and two women operate from two motor parks in Kano. The gang members revealed their strategies…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Rahma Hussein, a 23-year-old woman, has been pardoned seven years after she was convicted for killing her husband. In 2014, Hussein, then a 16-year-old, was arrested and charged to a high court in Kano for stabbing her husband to death at Darmanawa area in Tarauni Local Government, less than a week after…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Loyalists of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, have commenced the distribution of loaves of bread, branded ‘Atiku Kawai’ (Atiku Only) to Kano State residents. The development comes amid claims that Atiku is nursing a presidential ambition ahead of the 2023 elections, although he has not publicly confirmed it. The former Vice-President…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The terrorist group Boko Haram/ISWAP has released photos of the two soldiers and a Yobe Liaison Officer they kidnapped on Saturday along the Damaturu-Maiduguri highway. It’s noted that the abductees’ identity cards were also released by the militants. Two of the ID cards on exhibit belong to Mai Lalle, one belongs to…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police have arrested a 45-year-old man parading himself as an Assistant Commissioner of Police in Kano. This was announced in a statement issued on Wednesday by Kano police spokesman, DSP Abdullahi Haruna Kiyawa. The statement said Mohammed Aliyu went to a hotel in Kano metropolis and requested for accommodation in order to…
