LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 19 wedding guests lost their lives on Saturday when a commercial bus conveying a bride and other passengers plunged into a river while crossing a broken bridge at Gwalli village in Gummi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The victims were travelling from Fass village in Gummi LGA to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Notorious bandit kingpin, Ado Aleru, has reportedly killed seven of his own fighters in Zamfara State after accusing them of betrayal and carrying out unauthorised kidnappings. The executions occurred in Takulawa, Turba, Bamamu, and the Yamma forest axis, where Aleru allegedly confronted the fighters for staging kidnappings along the Gusau–Yankara highway without…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Zamfara terrorism kingpin, Bello Turji, has released 32 kidnapped persons and agreed to stop attacking farmers following a series of meetings with some Islamic clerics in his hideout. Musa Yusuf, a cleric popularly known as Asadus-Sunnah, disclosed the development at a religious gathering on Monday in Kaduna. Mr Yusuf said Mr Turji…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers in Nigeria have killed at least 35 people they abducted from a village in northern Zamfara state despite ransoms being paid for their release, a local official told the BBC. In recent years, criminal gangs in the region, known in the country as bandits, have taken to kidnapping people as a…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has cleared the Honourable Minister of State for Defence H.E. Dr. Bello Muhammed Matawalle MON over allegations of complicity on banditry in Zamfara State. As false as these allegations were, the accusers could not come out with convincing evidence to buttress their allegations. It is baseless and unjustifiable!!! Now…
LAGOS MAY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hon Bello Hassan Shinkafi, a member representing Zurmi and Shinkafi Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, has lamented the impacts of deadly activities of armed bandits that have been attacking several communities in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The lawmaker told BBC Hausa Service, on Tuesday, that over 50…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kaduna State Police Command says its operatives attached to the Tafa Divisional Headquarters have arrested a suspected kidnapper and recovered N2.3m as share of the ransom collected from victims. This was according to the command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Mansir Hassan, in a statement in Kaduna on Thursday. He also said…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court, sitting in Sokoto, Sokoto State, has dismissed a suit filed by the immediate-past governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle, over the ownership of about 5o vehicles said to belong to Zamfara State government. Recall that in June, the Zamfara State Police Command had raided the former Governor Matawalle’s…