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 MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten foreigners kidnapped in Gabon have been rescued in Tombia, a creek in Bille waterways, Degema Local Government Area, Rivers state with a ransom of $300,000 paid for their freedom. The victims, including six Chinese, three Indonesians and and one Gabonese along with four Nigerians said to have facilitated their release were rescued…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has rejoiced with Nigeria’s former President and an elder statesman, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, as he marks his 84th birthday today, Friday, March 5, 2021. In his birthday message made available to the Press, Obi described Obasanjo…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a quest to ascertain the causes of increasing rate of divorce in the Federal Capital Territory Abuja, it was gathered that desperate and chronic single ladies have uncovered a ‘fetish’ means of snatching husbands. The desperate spinsters have gone deep in search of the solution to their single status by using…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-For the past decade, criminal gangs in northwest Nigeria have terrorised communities, attacking villages, pillaging, raping, stealing cattle, ambushing travellers and kidnapping people. Groups have also turned to mass kidnapping, seizing hundreds of students in a string of raids on schools — apparently emulating tactics used by jihadists hundreds of kilometres (miles)…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has compared Nigeria to a vehicle with a knocked engine, insisting that Nigerians should devote more of their energy towards fixing the engine than seeking or concentrating their energy on who becomes the driver. Obi made…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-All 25 outlets of food retailer Shoprite in Nigeria have been shut down by workers, who are currently embarking on an industrial action over the sale of the company to Tayo Amusan’s Jara. TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports the workers took to the Shoprite outlets located in malls across the cross the country to…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, the third and largest delivery so far to an African country by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to vaccines. The COVAX program shipped 3.94 million doses…
