LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected of kidnapping two Umungalagu-Igbakwu brothers who live in Umungalagu Ivite Aguleri and work as native doctors in the same community.- Ifeanyi Simon, also known as Mgbo, and Okolo Nneke are two brothers who live in the Umungalagu village of Ivite Aguleri. They were kidnapped on Thursday afternoon at Ubaruisioye…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Benue state Commissioner for Housing and Urban Development, Chief Ekpe Ogbu, was Sunday night reportedly kidnapped by unknown gunmen. It was gathered that Chief Ogbu, a former Special Adviser and Local Government Council Chairman was abducted with two others at about 6pm along Ado-Otukpo road in the South Senatorial District of…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos have arrested six Bureau de Change operators for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old child. The police spokesperson in the state, Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the arrest on his verified Twitter handle monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday. Mr Hundeyin said the suspects conspired and kidnapped the…
Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested 51-year-old man, Austin Kanu, over the abduction of four teenagers in Surulere area of the State. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed in a statement on Tuesday, that the teenagers have been rescued. Hundeyin said that the teenagers who are all boys, had been reunited with…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic at Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos State, on Tuesday, when masked gunmen reportedly abducted a yet-to-be-identified motorist. According to eyewitnesses who narrated the incident on Twitter, the man was forced out of a black Toyota Corolla, which he was driving on Medical Road in the area. A user, @girllikehelen, who…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Friends and relations of the Divisional Police Officer, DPO, who was kidnapped by terrorists on his way to assume duty at Birnin-Gwari, Kaduna State have raised the alarm that the terrorists threatened to kill the police officer in captivity if their ransom demand is not met. They said that despite paying N7…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen abducted four Catholic nuns on a highway in Nigeria’s oil-producing Imo state in the southeast, a local convent said on Monday, in the latest sign of widespread insecurity making road travel unsafe. Armed gangs have been kidnapping people, including priests, for ransom from villages and on highways mainly in the northwest…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnappers of a bread seller in Osun State, have reached out to the family of the victim, demanding for the payment of N500,000 ransom. It was gathered that the bread seller, identified as Gettin, was abducted on Monday, July 18, 2022, as he was distributing bread to his customers. Gunmen yet-to-be…