LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Pirates have kidnapped 13 seafarers from a Liberian-flagged tanker 210 nautical miles off Bayelsa, according to multiple sources. Seven of the kidnapped crew members are Russians while six are Ukrainian nationals. The 11,322 dwt product tanker was boarded by eight armed pirates 210 nautical miles south west Bayelsa and 244 nautical miles…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected kidnappers have abducted a policewoman, her daughter and four others at Janruwa, Patrick Yakowa way area of Kaduna metropolis. The incident, according to eye witnesses, happened in the late hours of Saturday when the bandits stormed the community and started breaking into houses in commando style. An eyewitness, Mr. Babalola Mathew,…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have kidnapped a former Senator, who represented Taraba North in the National Assemby, Sen. Zik Sunday and the Chief Imam of the Command’s Mosque Coporal Mustapha Badamasi in two separate operations. Taraba State Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) DSP David Misal, at a press briefing in Jalingo today ,said that Sunday,…
Gal Pissetzky, counsel for alleged international fraudster, Ramon Abbas aka Hushpuppi, has said his client was illegally taken to the United States. Pissetzky of Pissetzky & Berliner said the Federal Bureau of Investigation kidnapped his client from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The Chicago-based lawyer argued that the Dubai Police should have extradited Abbas to…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The remains of a Nigeria Army Capt, GSM Abubakar who was killed along Lokoja- Okene highway has been moved to his hometown in Niger state for burial. A source close to the mortuary unit of the Federal Medical Centre, Lokoja told our correspondent that the family of the deceased and and few…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Gunmen have kidnapped the wife of Justice Ignatius Agube of the Court of Appeal, Ekwele, while her aide also died during the attack. Sources said the gunmen, who drove a Volkswagen Audi80 car, stormed the victim’s shop at Ekorinim in Calabar on Saturday and whisked her away to an unknown destination….
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Enugu State have rescued a 40-year-old lady from the Philippines, Irene Torento Panas, who was lured to Nigeria by a 54-year-old man named Chukwudi Odo. The woman was rescued six months after arriving Nigeria from her country in an apparent but unsuccessful search for love. Panas, an accountant by…
LAGOS JUNE 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted an officer of the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS), Adamu Suleiman, and his two children, Abdullahi and Balkisu, in Naharati community in Abaji Area Council of the FCT. A resident of Naharati said the incident happened in the wee hours of yesterday after the gunmen in…