LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An angry mob on Saturday attacked the divisional police headquarters in the Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State and killed 13 suspected bandits whose corpses were burnt to ashes. The bandits were said to be among those who invaded the area around 8pm on Friday, killing two persons, including a shop…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry mob on Tuesday attacked Kware Divisional Police Station in Sokoto State and lynched a suspected kidnapper. Members of the mob, who are residents of the area, went violent and also set ablaze a car belonging to the Divisional Police Officer and two other police vans. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have killed Abba Abbey Gidan Haki, the personal aide to former Sokoto State Governor, Senator Aliyu Wamakko. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to Senator Wamakko, Bashir Rabe Mani, who confirmed the incident said that Abbey,50, was abducted on Thursday night, March 18. His corpse…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to the indigenes of the area said that the gunmen, who struck around 1:00am, went away with the guns of the murdered officers. The Divisional Police Officer of Gidan Madi Police Station in Tangaza Local Government Area of Sokoto State, and another officer were killed by gunmen. It was added, that…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-After seventy-seven days of border closure, major markets and stores in Sokoto State are still being flooded with foreign rice. Where do they get the foreign from after two month of border closure? Apparently, by now, old stocks should have been exhausted in two month. But that is not the case in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The 2019 All Nigeria Editors’ Conference (ANEC), the annual flagship conference of the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), will hold at the international conference centre, Sokoto, from Wednesday, November 27 to Sunday, December 1. Acting President of the Guild, Mr. Mustapha Isah, said Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has confirmed the readiness of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the closure of land borders nationwide by the Federal Government, most smugglers of banned items have devised a new method to beat the security authorities. Sunday Tribune investigation at Illela, in Illela Local Government Area of Sokoto State, a border town between Nigeria and Niger Republic, has revealed. Sunday Tribune learnt…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has arrested its men allegedly involved in a fracas that resulted in the death of two persons in Mabera area in Sokoto State. PRNigeria gathered that the Service was disturbed by the alleged killing of the civilians on October 20, 2019, as reported by an online newspaper Daily…