LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Katsina State police command has arrested three notorious kidnappers. The kidnappers were said to be operating between Katsina State and Zamfara State. The three notorious kidnappers were arrested on 25 February, 2021 by policemen. While parading the three kidnappers, Katsina State police public relations officer, SP Gambo Isah said that the…
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…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has strongly frowned at a comment a group based in Sokoto, “Muslim Solidarity Forum, calling on the Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah to tender an unreserved apology to the entire Muslim Ummah over his recent “malicious comments” against Islam, or quietly and quickly leave the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted many students of Islamiyya school in Mahuta town, Dandume Local Government Area of Katsina State. According to Katsina Post, the Islamic students were abducted on their way home after they graced a maulud procession at Unguwar Al-Kasim, a nearby village. The actual number of the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday. Reunions that are more celebratory and emotional likely will come when the boys are finally reunited with their families,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Head of the Inspector-General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), DCP Abba Kyari and his team have stormed Katsina State, on the heels of the abduction of over 300 students in a school at Kankara. PRNigeria reports that the arrival of the IRT squad may not be unconnected with the recent…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Katsina State Police Command on Saturday said over 200 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, were rescued from gunmen who attacked the school on Friday night. The command, however, did not specify the number of students abducted by the bandits. A statement by the spokesman for the command, SP Gambo…
LAGOS DECEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police officers at Batsari Local Government of Katsina State on Thursday protested against their unpaid allowances. According to Katsina Post, the police officers took to the streets and blocked a major road linking to Batsari market. According to the report, soldiers eventually arrived at the scene to remove the barricade, a move…