LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS) – A telecoms blackout will be maintained in large swathes of northwest Nigeria because it is helping the armed forces crack down on bandits responsible for a wave of abductions and attacks, the country’s top general said on Thursday. All telephone and internet services were shut down in the whole of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Military troops of Operation HADARIN DAJI have neutralised several bandits and destroyed their hideouts at Sokoto and Katsina forests in the North West, PRNigeria reports. A military source told PRNigeria that the mission was achieved through air strikes executed on October 5, 2021. This was after series of aerial surveillance missions had…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Emir of Bungudu in Zamfara state Hassan Attahiru has been kidnapped. The first-class chief was abducted while travelling along Kaduna – Abuja highway Tuesday’s evening A police personnel was said to have been killed during an exchange of fire with the bandits. It was gathered that only the emir was abducted…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits have overrun a Nigerian military base in Zamfara marking a major setback in the campaign to curb violent crimes across the state. The bandits struck a forward operating base in Mutumji, Dansadau, about 80 kilometres south of the capital Gusau, at about 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, The Gazette learnt from military…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians refer to them as bandits – a word that does not quite do justice to what are in fact networks of sophisticated criminals who operate across large swathes of northern-western and central Nigeria. Gangs on motorbikes terrorise the region, stealing animals, kidnapping for ransom, killing anyone who dares confront them and…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nigerian Air Force (NAF) Alpha Jet aircraft, returning from a successful air interdiction mission between the boundaries of Zamfara and Kaduna State, came under intense enemy fire which led to its crash in Zamfara State. Luckily, the gallant pilot of the aircraft, Flight Lieutenant Abayomi Dairo, successfully ejected from the aircraft….
LAGOS MAY 22BD (NEWSRANGERS)-Top bandits’ leaders in Zamfara State are now forcing abducted persons including farmers from communities to work on their farmlands. The bandits’ leaders also threaten communities in the state that farmers must not go to their farms until they have gone to cultivate the farmlands of bandits’ leaders as this year’s planting…
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….