LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-15-year-old junior secondary school student of Dutse Safe community, in Katsina State, has revealed how a custom officer allegedly raped and got her pregnant. According to the information made available by the Punch, the 15-year-old who has now given birth to the child and stays with her grandmother maintained that the customs…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As a gangster, arms dealer and kidnapper extraordinaire, Awwalun Daudawa looked like a character beyond reform. Last December, he masterminded one of Nigeria’s biggest-ever school kidnappings, abducting more than 300 boys in Katsina, the home state of President Muhammadu Buhari. A week later, the boys were freed, amid widespread rumours that Mr…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Itse Sagay, chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), says he is worried that Abubakar Malami, attorney-general of the federation, may interfere in the duties of Abdulrasheed Bawa, newly-appointed chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). The senate on Tuesday, confirmed Bawa as substantive chairman of the EFCC…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid anxiety over the fate of abducted students of Government College, Kagara, Niger State, bandits struck again in neigbourbing Katsina State, abducting a monarch and 17 women in two separate attacks. The gunmen were said to have kidnapped the 91-year-old traditional ruler of Kunduru community on Friday night. Sunday Vanguard learned that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian criminal gang leader behind the kidnapping of hundreds of schoolchildren in northwestern Katsina state in December has surrendered to authorities in an amnesty deal, officials said on Tuesday. Auwalun Daudawa led dozens of gunmen who snatched students from their school hostels in the town of Kankara in a crime that…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The All Progressives Congress (APC) has flagged off its nationwide membership registration, update, and revalidation exercise in Daura, Katsina State with President Buhari in attendance. The flag off paves the way for a stakeholder meeting on Monday, February 1; training of state and local government supervisors on Tuesday, February 2; and training…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-On Saturday, December 26, 2020, Suwaiba Naziru, 22, mother of one and heavily pregnant, was abducted from her village in Biya Ki Kwana of Batsari Local Government Area, Katsina State, alongside her two-year-old toddler. Bandits had raided the village at about 8 pm, shot and injured two young men and abducted 10…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tired, hungry and dazed – Nigeria’s freed schoolboys arrived back home on Friday (December 18), having been rescued from their captors. As they got off buses in the city of Katsina, many of them appeared to be barefoot and were wrapped in blankets after a week-long ordeal. Gunmen on motorbikes had raided…