
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Wednesday (19/05/19), paraded an alleged kidnap for ransom kingpin, certain Abubakar Umar, said to have made over N200 million from kidnappings within the last six months. Umar was paraded alongside 37 other suspects, with one Abubakar Ahmadu, arrested over the kidnap of the chairman of the Universal […]
Jun 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Audu Adamu Madaki, the Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State has revealed how herdsmen use their cattle to conceal and smuggle dangerous firearms into Nigeria. At a briefing on the security situation and the wave of kidnappings in the state on Wednesday in Yola, Madaki said three “repentant” kidnappers who turned in […]
Jun 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command says three passengers and a driver were kidnapped after gunmen hijacked a bus along Emohua axis of the East-West Road. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, while confirming the incident, said the armed men struck at Evekwu in Emohua. Omoni added that commercial […]
Jun 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, has come under criticism following his appointment of Festus Adedayo as special adviser on media and publicity. Adedayo has reportedly been a staunch critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the ruling All Progressives Congress. Supporters of the party expressed their disappointment over the Senate president’s appointment […]
Jun 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal authorities seized 15,500 kilograms of cocaine from a south Philadelphia port Tuesday. The drugs were removed from seven shipping containers that had arrived in Philadelphia on the cargo ship MSC Gayane. Investigators believe that the drugs were loaded onto the ship in the Bahamas, which was its last port of call […]

LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it thwarted a desperate criminal move by smugglers who concealed 55 wraps of cannabis under a corpse being brought in from Ghana along Owode axis. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Uba Garba Mohammed who disclosed this in a […]
Jun 20 2019 | Posted in
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By Amos Okioma LAGOS JUNE20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) says it has raised some 6,659 entrepreneurs from its gas fields in Bayelsa and Delta from 2003 till date. Mr Igo Weli, General Manager, External Relations at SPDC stated this on Wednesday at a graduation and award ceremony for beneficiaries of the oil firm’s […]
Jun 20 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWRANGERS)-A political pressure group, the Vanguards of Democracy (VOD), has said that it is “very disheartening and shameful” that the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, “could stoop so low to deny the use of the INEC server in the collation and transmission of results for the […]
Jun 19 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unofficially regarded as the tallest man in Nigeria, the man who stands at a towering 7ft.4 inches is indeed a sight to behold. However, while living under the spot light may have brought good things into his life, it appears finding true love is not one of them. In a recent interview […]
Jun 19 2019 | Posted in
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LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, Most Rev. Mathew Ndagoso-Manoso, has lamented the lack of government presence in some communities in Borno State, saying that some communities depend on Boko Haram for essential services. Ndagoso-Manoso spoke at a church service conducted at the Our Lady’s Parish in Kaduna to mark the beginning […]
Jun 19 2019 | Posted in
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