LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 20 people were killed in Nigeria’s Sokoto state when gunmen attacked a market and torched cars, as armed gangs continue to wreak havoc in the northwest part of the country, a state official and local member of parliament said on Saturday. Northwestern Nigeria has since last December witnessed a wave…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In their collective bid to halt the spate of banditry, kidnappings, and violence in the North-West geopolitical zone, three governors from the region on Thursday met and sought the assistance of the European Union (EU), the United Nations (UN), and some Western countries, including the United States of America, UK, and Canada….
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A transborder drug trafficker, 36-year-old Nkem Timothy, alias Auwalu Audu has been arrested in Sokoto by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, while trying to cross to Algeria through the Niger Republic with 62 wraps of substance suspected to be cocaine weighing 1.550kg, which has an estimated street value…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Hassan Kukah, has been called upon to “quickly and quietly leave the seat of Caliphate” or immediately stop his malicious vituperations against Islam and Muslims and tender unreserved apology to the Muslim Ummah. Significantly, the call from the Muslim Solidarity Forum, Sokoto, in a press statement,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a drama at the Kwannawa motor park in Dange-Shuni local government area of Sokoto state on Sunday as a commercial driver identified one of his abductors amongst his passengers. The driver (name withheld) was kidnapped along Kankara in Katsina state while returning from Kano about two months ago. Daily Trust…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A seasoned journalist in Sokoto State and Editor of Newsdiaryonline, Abdallah El-Kurebe, has tested positive for Coronavirus. PRNigeria learnt that the prolific Editor contacted the deadly virus from a fellow journalist who had tested positive for COVID-19. The journalist, who is now late, died at a Sokoto Hospital, two days after he…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force on Tuesday said it nabbed a 28-year-old female member of a kidnap gang infamous for perpetrating crimes in Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna and Niger States. It said Fatima Garba, who was the armourer of the gang, was arrested alongside other members. “Fatima, who confessed of being the gang’s armourer…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission has accused National Assembly members of stealing billions of naira in the name of constituency projects. The ICPC, in a report tagged “Constituency Projects Tracking Group”, tracked 424 projects from 2015-2018 constituency projects between June and August 2019 across the 12 states of…
