LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Niger Republic has denied receiving 10 vehicles allegedly purchased by the President Muhammadu Buhari government for N1.15 billion. Niger Republic’s Minister of Defence, Alkassoum Indatou, denied the donation. According to him, only Zamfara State that has come to the aid of the country with five vehicles mainly on account of the repeated…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Saturday received another batch of 140 Nigerians stranded in Agadas, Niger Republic. The NEMA Coordinator, Kano Territorial Office, Dr Nuradeen Abdullahi, confirmed this while receiving the returnees in Kano. According to him, the returnees were brought back to Kano at about 9.38 p.m in three…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven children have been killed in Niger in an air strike by the Nigerian army targeting “bandits”, a local governor and state media have said. Five more were hurt in the apparently accidental strike, the governor of Niger’s Maradi region told AFP. Governor Chaibou Aboubacar said four were killed instantly and three…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A song celebrating notorious kingpin of banditry, Bello Turji, is trending in northern Nigeria to the indignation of many residents who have suffered from the ongoing atrocities of bandits in the regions. Mr Turji, from Shinkafi in Zamfara State, is believed to lead gangs terrorising communities in Sokoto, Zamfara, and parts of…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Over 50,000 residents of 17 communities in Sabon Birni Local Government Area have relocated to Niger Republic over incessant bandits’ attacks. This was disclosed by the member representing Sabon Birni North constituency in the Sokoto State House of Assembly, Aminu Almustapha Boza. Boza said the villagers are currently taking refuge at Tudun…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tension yesterday enveloped communities in Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory as hundreds of nomadic herders crossed Abuja-Kaduna highway into Sabon-Wuse in Niger State to camp there. This development forced some residents of Sabon-Wuse, a few kilometers away from Bwari Area Council, to stay at home in fear of the…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-An attempted coup has been thwarted in Niger following heavy gunfire overnight close to the presidential palace, security sources say. A group of soldiers behind the assault has been arrested, AFP reports. The attack comes two days before President-elect Mohamed Bazoum is due to be sworn in. It will be the first…
LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed attackers killed 137 people in coordinated raids on villages in southwestern Niger on Sunday, the government said, making it one of the deadliest days in recent memory in a country ravaged by Islamist violence. The unidentified assailants struck in the afternoon, raiding three villages and other hamlets in Tahoua region bordering…