LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Two women leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state have been kidnapped along Manini flash point of Birnin Gwari Local Governments Area of the state after attending the inauguration of the state governor, Senator Uba Sani This was disclosed by the chairman of Birnin Gwari Emirate Progressive Union (BEPU,…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 88-year-old Australian doctor held captive by Islamic extremists in West Africa for more than seven years has been freed and has returned to Australia. Ken Elliott was safe and well and was reunited with his wife and their children on Thursday night, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. “I’m very pleased to…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two kidnapped US embassy staff have been rescued unharmed in Nigeria, say police, days after seven other people travelling in the same convoy were killed. The attack happened on Tuesday in the south-eastern district of Ogbaru, which has been under curfew for the past year because of safety concerns. A local official…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A retired officer of the Nigerian Immigration Service, Jacob Agada, has been killed by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Lafia, the capital of Nasarawa State. Agada was found dead a few hours after he was kidnapped by the gunmen who mounted roadblocks around Ombi II, Lafia on Thursday night and…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The President of Igueben Area Customary Court, Mrs Precious Aigbonoga, was kidnapped on Monday morning in Ugoneki, on her way to court in Igueben Local Government Area, Edo State. In a press release by the Nigeria Bar Association Publicity Secretary, Festus Usiobaifo, he said the NBA was working closely with the Edo…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Edo State House of Assembly member, Festus Edughele, was kidnapped on Monday morning by suspected gunmen in Ubiaja while on his way from Orhionmwon to Benin City, the state capital. This is coming three days after 32 passengers waiting to board a train from the Igueben station in the Igueben…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The lifeless body of the abducted son of the slain staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Kehinde Fatinoye, has been found in Ogun river. DAILY POST reported on Sunday that Fatinoye and his wife were murdered by yet-to-be-identified persons in their Ibara GRA residence in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital….
LAGOS DECEMBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Army on Friday said Lieutenant PP Johnson, a female soldier abducted by gunmen on Monday, has not been released by her captors. Johnson, a newly commissioned female Lieutenant in the Nigerian Army (NA), was kidnapped while visiting her grandmother in Aku-Okigwe in Imo State. In a viral video, one of…