LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unidentified gunmen have attacked the University of Jos Staff Quarters located along Bauchi Road in Jos, Plateau State capital, and shot dead a lecturer identified as Dr Nendi Drengkat. It was learnt that the gunmen also kidnapped his six-year-old daughter during the incident which occurred on Friday night. The Chairman of the…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Bauchi State Command has intercepted 1, 360 rounds of live ammunition of 7.6mm caliber during a motorized patrol along Bauchi-Jos Road. The ammunition was being conveyed to Jos, Plateau State by a commercial Vectra Car which carried seven passengers. One AK 47 magazine was also found…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Assistant Director attached to the State House, Abuja, Laetitia Dagan, has been killed by yet-to-be identified assailants. Dagan was said to have been killed in her apartment in Galadimawa, Abuja, on Monday shortly after she returned from work. The 47-year-old Plateau State indigene was said to have left her office in…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnapping of innocent citizens, mostly women and children, has become rampant in Jos and many parts of Plateau State, as the criminal business peaked during Christmas, while Governor Simon Lalong travelled abroad. The kidnappers succeeded in taking the wife of the Deputy Director of Press, Government House, on New Year day….
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two young men were confirmed dead midnight Friday in Jos, as residence continue to lament the negative effect weather on the Plateau state. The two young men, who were residents of Gangare community of Jos North Local Government Area, were Saturday evening , exclusively confirmed dead to Blueprint by an elder brother to one…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two girls accused of witchcraft have been set ablaze by yet to be identified people at Waduruk community, Shen village, Jos South local government area of Plateau State. The victims aged 11 and 5 years respectively are lying critically ill at the Plateau State Specialists Hospital, Jos as the result of the…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)Muslim cleric Abubakar Abdullahi who risked his own life to save some Christians in Jos has been honoured with US International Religious Freedom Award. The 83-year-old Imam hid over 200 Christians from suspected bandits in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State, during June 2018 clashes. He hid the Christian his…
LAGOS JULY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 27-year-old pregnant woman, Margaret Wakili and an aged woman have been murdered by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Ancha village in Miango District of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was gathered that Margaret was killed when she took some food to her husband, Wakili Ayuba in the farm. Another…
