By Achiever Peterson, Jigawa LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department for International Development, an agency of the United Kingdom has spent over N12 billion on the improvement of the welfare, nutrition and livelihood of vulnerable and pregnant women and children in Jigawa and Zamfara states. The expenditure came through an unconditional transfer programme targeting pregnant and…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria will lift a ban on mining in Zamfara state by the end of March after the government deployed a surveillance team to stifle illegal activity in the northwestern region, the minister of mines and steel development said. The government suspended operations in April on concerns that illegal mining was connected to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zamfara state government says it has uncovered a 119-year-old (name withheld) on its payroll even as it planned to drag a total of 108 civil servants to court for receiving double salary in different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Finance, Alhaji Rabi’u Garba, disclosed…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have released a Korean medical doctor, who had been in captivity for seven months. The doctor had been working at the Tsafe Local Government Area of Zamfara State when he was abducted. Also released were 250 people, who are from different parts of the state as well as neighbouring states. Briefing…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has described as a constitutional crime and an unmitigated evil tantamount to an impeachable offence the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari administration to go into dialogue in Zamfara State with armed fulani militia and bandits. HURIWA frowned at an alleged planned to appease “these mass…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWRANGERS)-What could have resulted in a repeat of the Chibok and Dapchi school girls’ abductions was averted in Zamfara State on Wednesday night when bandits stormed Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Moriki in Zurmi Local Council of Zamfara State. No student was kidnapped as the abductors could not break the locks before…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The faceoff between the Zamfara state chapter of the APC and INEC appears to have taken a new turn as the state Governor, Abdul’Aziz Yari Abubakar, has threatened that there would be no elections in the State if the electoral body fails to field its candidates during the elections. Recall that INEC…
LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen in police and military uniforms, on Saturday, kidnapped seven people at a football viewing centre in Birnin Magaji town, the headquarters of Birnin Magaji local government area of Zamfara State. The owner of the viewing centre Sanusi Iliyasu Ishie told Daily Trust that about 20 armed men arrived at the football…