LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 618 schools have remained closed in six northern states over the fear of attack and abduction of pupils and members of staff, according to a tally by THISDAY. Also, barely three days after the abduction of 39 students of the Federal School of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State, security…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Monday seized three primary school teachers in the northwestern Nigerian state of Kaduna, the government said, in a region wracked by banditry and kidnapping. The raid is the latest in a string of attacks on schools in Nigeria, coming just four days after 39 college students were kidnapped by a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Italian ambassador to Democratic Republic of Congo was killed in a botched kidnapping on Monday in an attack on a United Nations convoy in the east of the country. Italy’s Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement that the Italian ambassador to Congo, Luca Attanasio, was killed. The convoy was attacked near…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State Government said suspected bandits killed two persons in the early hours of Saturday in Baka village of Igabi Local Government Area Samuel Aruwan, the Commissioner of Internal Security and Home Affairs, made the disclosure to newsmen on Saturday in Kaduna. Aruwan said: “On a sad note, security agencies have…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-It doesn’t look like there is an end in sight to the menace of Fulani herdsmen as they struck again on Sunday January 24th on the ever busy Lagos/Benin/Ore road. The rampaging herdsmen stopped a 14 seater Hiace bus in its tracks by firing at it and shattering the windows. They then proceeded to…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Taraba on Sunday launched manhunt for the killers of the Chairman of Ardo Kola Local Government Area of the state, Mr Salihu Dovo, and his Nephew. DSP David Misal, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state who confirmed the incident to newsmen in Jalingo said, “It’s…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pirates off Nigeria’s coast kidnapped 15 sailors from a Turkish container ship in the Gulf of Guinea on Saturday in a brazen and violent attack that was farther from shore than usual. One sailor was killed in the raid, an Azerbaijani citizen, while those kidnapped are from Turkey, according to the respective…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have demanded the sum of N50m for the seven kidnapped children of the children of the factional Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, Alhaji Gyare Kadauri Sani. The victims, Bashar, Abubakar, Haruna, Habibah, Sufyanu, Mubarak and Armiya, were kidnapped by bandits…