LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Bayelsa State High Court Judge, RT. Hon. Justice E.G.Umokoro, has regained freedom after 12 days in captivity. According to the Nigeria Police Force and Department of State Service(DSS), he was released from kidnappers’ den without payment of ransom. Umukoro, who was kidnapped in controversial circumstances at a popular eatery in Yenagoa, was released on the day President…
LAGOS MAY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A popular businessman, Prince Bankole Adepegba, also known as “Ade Bendel,” who was abducted in IIara town in Imeko-Afon Local Government Area of Ogun State has regained his freedom after the payment of a ransom amounting to N300 million. The gunmen stormed the community at about 11 pm on Wednesday, April 30,…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An American pastor kidnapped by armed men during a church service in South Africa has been freed following a “high-intensity shoot-out” that left three people dead, police say. Josh Sullivan was found unharmed in the township in Gqeberha in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday evening – the area where the 45-year-old was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National President of the Afenifere National Youth Council, Prince Eniola Ojajuni, has made a desperate appeal to Nigerians to help raise the N100 million ransom demanded by kidnappers who have threatened to kill him by 3 pm on Monday. A viral video circulating on Monday shows the distressed Afenifere youth leader…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits have reportedly kidnapped the former Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brgd. Gen. Maharazu Tsiga (retd.), in Tsiga village, Bakori Local Government Area of Katsina State, in the early hours of Thursday. The bandits also killed one person and abducted at least nine others, even as they were said…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command yesterday, raided a kidnappers’ den in a creek in Ikorodu area of Ogun State and rescued Mrs Folashade Odumosu, wife of AIG Hakeem Odumosu (rted) who was kidnapped last week. Two kidnappers were killed during the rescue operation after kidnappers reportedly engaged the operatives in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Local hunters and vigilantes have rescued the five abducted wedding guests who were on their way to Odo-Owa community in Kwara State from Kogi State. The victims who were abducted last Saturday at Obbo-Ayegunle at about 4 pm by gunmen in Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara state, were rescued by local…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-42-year-old nurse, Alice Loksha, who was abducted in 2018 by Boko Haram insurgents in Borno State, has regained freedom Speaking with newsmen in Maiduguri, the state capital, on Friday, the Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, North-East, Major General Wahdi Shuaibu, said she was captured while working at…