LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A senior official of the Nigeria Customs Service has explained how operatives offered bandits seven bags of seized rice to save themselves from the criminals. Comptroller Aliyu Mohammed, who is the Coordinator of the Sector 4 Command of the Joint Border Patrol Team in the North West, narrated how the incident occurred…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen from a suspected criminal gang stormed a school in central Nigeria, killing one student and kidnapping dozens of other pupils, teachers and relatives, the local government said Wednesday, in the country’s latest mass abduction. President Muhammadu Buhari ordered security forces to coordinate a rescue operation, his office said, after gunmen in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bleary, barefoot, apparently numbed by a week of captivity, more than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped in an attack on their school, were welcomed by the governor of Katsina state Friday. Reunions that are more celebratory and emotional likely will come when the boys are finally reunited with their families,…