LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Resident Electoral Commissioner for Zamfara State, Professor Sa’idu Babura Ahmed, has reported that their office in Kauran Namoda Local Government Area was gutted by fire. Confirming the fire incident in a statement, National Commissioner & Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye Esq. Tuesday 3rd May 2022 confirmed that the tragic…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits have abducted the regional accountant of Nigerian Customs Service in charge of Kano & Jigawa State, Mr Mahassan Lawal. Mr Lawal was kidnapped late on Friday night in his country home of Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The officer was whisked away by gunmen who came in their…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An estimated 200 people or more have been killed in villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara during deadly reprisal attacks by armed bandits following military air strikes on their hideouts this week, residents said on Saturday. Residents gained access to the villages on Saturday after the military captured the communities…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven police personnel were killed by suspected bandits along the Tofa-Magami Road in the Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State. An indigene of the area, Salisu Sani, told The PUNCH that the incident occurred about 6pm on Monday when the police personnel went to the area on patrol mission. Sani said,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In our series of letters from African journalists, Mannir Dan Ali, former editor-in-chief of Nigeria’s Daily Trust newspaper, considers the impact of the latest tactic to tackle Nigeria’s ruthless kidnapping gangs – cutting off access to mobile phones and the internet. For the last few years life in rural areas of north-western…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the recent closure of schools in Zamfara State, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr Peter Obi, has, again, called on political leaders, at all levels of government, not to be blinded by their quest for power, ahead of 2023 elections, when the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian government has ordered all telecom operators to shut down their networks in Zamfara State. Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Communications Commission in a letter to all telecom operators on Friday said the action was one of the strategies taken by security operatives…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be bandits have abducted many students of Kaya Junior Secondary School in Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. Witness revealed that the gunmen who came on motorcycles stormed the school on Wednesday afternoon, shooting sporadically. “There was an abduction of students just now in Kaya town, Maradun Local…