LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid the continued confinement of the 39 students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, Kaduna State 17 days after they were abducted by armed bandits, no fewer than eight members of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Region 30, Trinity Sanctuary, Kaduna, were on Friday abducted by gunmen. Saturday PUNCH…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten foreigners kidnapped in Gabon have been rescued in Tombia, a creek in Bille waterways, Degema Local Government Area, Rivers state with a ransom of $300,000 paid for their freedom. The victims, including six Chinese, three Indonesians and and one Gabonese along with four Nigerians said to have facilitated their release were rescued…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A call has gone to the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Colonel Hameed Ali, to expedite action and secure the release of the abducted Deputy Superintendent of Customs, DSC Jimoh Folowosele, by the dreaded terrorist group, Boko Haram. The family of the abducted senior customs officer,at a press conference addressed by the victim’s brother, …
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifteen Turkish sailors kidnapped by pirates last month in the Gulf of Guinea arrived back in Turkey on Sunday and the ship’s captain described how they faced death threats and were held in a forest during their three-week ordeal. The sailors hugged relatives as they arrived before dawn at Istanbul Airport, where…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female reporter with Nigeria Television Authority, NTA, Network Centre in Port Harcourt , Mrs Chidiebele Julian Nweke Onyia, has been kidnapped by yet to be identified persons. Available details of how she was kidnapped are sketchy at the time of filing this report. But according to a post by Mrs Osinachi…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A retired Assistant Comptroller of Immigration, Alhaji Abdulahi Idris Rakieu, has been kidnapped in Abuja alongside his wife, another member of the family, and one Olushola Agun. SaharaReporters gathered that the kidnappers, said to be of Fulani extraction, stormed the town, Tungan Maje around midnight on Sunday, and shot indiscriminately into the…
LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-“I was meant to be killed, but my abductors sold me to herdsmen. I saw hell and I don’t wish my enemy such.” Those were the exact words of the Public Relations Officer of the Edo State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, Mrs Bridget Esene, who was kidnapped on Sunday…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers along Lokoja-Abuja Highway have abducted members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on their way from Ede NYSC Orientation Camp, Osun State, Southwestern Nigeria. The number of abducted corps members could not be ascertained as of the time of filing this report. Adenike Adeyemi, spokesperson of the NYSC could not…