LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A night of prayers turned into a nightmare on Friday when armed men stormed a mountain-top vigil in Egbola area along Agbaja Road in Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State, abducting an unspecified number of worshipers. It was reported that the attackers invaded the remote prayer ground in the dead…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-An American pastor has been kidnapped by armed men after they stormed his church service in South Africa, local authorities say. Josh Sullivan had been conducting a service at Fellowship Baptist Church in Motherwell, a township in Gqeberra in the Eastern Cape, on Thursday evening when “four armed and masked male suspects…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted 18 passengers of an Abuja-bound ABC Transport bus in Kogi State. Retired Commodore Jerry Omodara, the security adviser to the Governor of Kogi, confirmed the development to newsmen on Thursday. He noted that the incident occurred on Sunday, March 16, when the bus, which was…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected terrorists have killed Alhaji Amadu Surajo, the Acting Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) in Katsina State, during an attack on Mai Rana village in Kusada Local Government Area late Saturday night. The attackers also killed three others, injured several people, and abducted Surajo’s first and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen kidnapped scores of GIGMobility bus passengers on Saturday in the Obajana area of Kogi State. SaharaReporters learnt that the GIGMobility bus was moving from Lagos State to Abuja on Saturday, when it was attacked by gunmen around Obajana heading to Lokoja. The kidnappers took all of the passengers away, but…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the Shepherd of Celestial Church of Christ, Nazareth Parish 1, Oluwatosin Alayo, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. The incident was said to have occurred on Monday evening at the residence of the cleric in the Adamo area of the community. Sources privy to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits have blocked the ever-busy Zaria Gusau – Funtua highway, kidnapping unspecified number of travelers. For nearly two hours,passengers were unable to cross Tazane, as bandits took control of the busy Zaria-Gusau highway Speaking, one of the stranded passengers, Yusuf Tsafe, narrated how the bandits stormed the highway in the early…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The wife and two daughters of a Kogi-based journalist, Muhammed Bashir, were among the ten members of the same family kidnapped on Thursday in Kaduna State. Bashir’s wife and his two daughters arrived in Kaduna earlier on Thursday for a holiday with her (the wife’s) family in a suburb of Kaduna. Bashir,…