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 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Julius Abuda is the younger brother of Chief Dennis Abuda, an American-based Nigerian businessman who was killed recently by kidnappers at Ahor, Benin, Edo State. In this interview with ADEYINKA ADEDIPE, Julius speaks about the circumstances surrounding his brother’s death and how his body was recovered from the bush How do you…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Network Centre in Port Harcourt , Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, has been kidnapped by yet to be identified persons. Available details of how she was kidnapped are sketchy at the time of filing this report. But according to a post by Mrs Osinachi…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who kidnapped orphans in an Orphanage, Rachel’s Home in Abuja fortnight ago, have released them after payment of ransom, but abducted a woman who delivered the payment. The bandits had stormed the orphanage in Abaji area on 23 January and kidnapped children aged between 10 and 13. Some adults who were…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Yoruba Muslim lady based abroad has narrated her experience with Fulani herdsmen during her visit to Nigeria for a wedding. According to her, the Fulani herdsmen are an organised group with huge camp and a traditional medical team. She stated that she became the relic and a sexual museum for the…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) was early Sunday morning thrown into panic mode as the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the command, Mrs Bridget Esene, was reportedly kidnapped by gunmen on her way to church. Nigerian Tribune gathered that Esene was trailed by her abductors on Sunday…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The Kaduna State Chairman of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Emmanuel Bako, and his wife Cindy Bako, have been kidnapped by gunmen at a praying camp in Jema’a Local Government Area, Kaduna State. In a statement on Saturday, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, said the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Maiduguri have been thrown into panic following the killing and abduction of several travellers along the Maiduguri-Damaturu expressway in Borno State. The 133-kilometre highway is the only major road that links Borno to other parts of the country. The killing and abduction of travellers on Friday is the latest and…