LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nemesis has caught up with no fewer than 15 armed bandits in Niger state as the boat conveying them capsized midway into the about three hour journey at river Shiroro in Shiroro local government area of the state. The mishap occurred on Wednesday last week when the bandits were said to be…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Victims Support Fund (VSF), an NGO, on Monday lamented the appalling conditions of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Niger State. Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) at Shiroro, Niger State, on Monday, its Executive Director, Prof. Nana Tanko, lamented that “with all the humanitarian agencies, development partners in Nigeria…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The bandits who abducted the 156 pupils of the Salihu Tanko Islamiyya School in Tegina town of Rafi local government of Niger state last Sunday have increased the ransom for their release to N200m. Initially the bandits demanded for N110m for the release of the victims, mostly girls, with a threat that…
LAGOS JUNE 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Registrar of the National Examinations Council, Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead. Obioma died on Monday night at his Minna residence in the Niger State capital. The deceased’s wife, Mrs Elizabeth Obioma, told newsmen that her husband was killed by assassins. “The assassins came in and killed him and left without taking…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian officials say gunmen have kidnapped many students from an Islamic school in Nigeria – the latest in a series of such attacks on schools. Authorities in Niger state confirmed to the BBC that gunmen had seized an unknown number of students from the school in the town of Tegina on Sunday….
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of people were missing in northwest Nigeria on Wednesday after an overloaded boat ferrying around 160 passengers sank in the Niger River, a local official said. The boat left central Niger state and was heading to Wara in northwest Kebbi state when it broke apart and sank, Abdullahi Buhari Wara, administrative…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A vast plot of land belonging to the Nigerian Army (NA) in Kontagora local government of Niger State is harbouring armed bandits terrorizing several parts of the State, PRNigeria has gathered. Concerned about the development, the Nigerian Army under the current leadership is devising new measures to tackle the activities of the…
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was disarray among a group of armed bandits on Friday as they engaged each other in a gun battle. After the gun battle,12 of them were cut down while scores were seriously injured in Kusasu Community in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. Many others escaped for their lives, leaving…