Equiprime near-rings, which generalize the concept of prime-ness in rings, were defined by the present authors, together with S. Veldsman. This concept was shown in subsequent work to lead to a very satisfactory theory of special radicals for near-rings. In the current paper, we define equiprimeN-groups for a near-ringN. It is shown that an idealAofNis equiprime if and only if it is the annihilator of an equiprime TV-groupG.Special classes of near-ring modules are defined, and a module-theoretic characterization of special radicals of near-rings is established, similar to that given by Andrunakievich and Rjabuhin for special radicals of rings.