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…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A trans-border trafficker, Emeka Okoro and another drug dealer, Ibrahim Bello have been arrested in Abuja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, with cocaine weighing 1.1kilogramme, which has a street value of N264million. While Okoro was intercepted with 900grammes of cocaine in a commercial bus along Abuja-Gwagwalada road…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 10 persons have died and 400 hospitalised after drinking expired citric acid powdered drinks in Kano State. Among those hospitalised are 50 patients undergoing kidney- related treatment, because of complications arising from consumption of the killer drinks, Kano Commissioner for Health, Aminu Ibrahim Tsanyawa disclosed on Thursday. Speaking in…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Customs officer on Thursday was found dead in a hotel room located on Oyo Road, Nomansland, Kano. According to a source, the Customs officer often lodged at the hotel away from his Zango, Daura, Katsina base, each time he visits Kano for an undisclosed mission. The source further disclosed that the…
