LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Abia state Police command has arrested a police constable who was alleged to be involved in the carting away of police rifles from the armory of Mobile Police Squadron 28, Umuahia, Abia State. It was gathered penultimate week that some persons broke into the armoury of MOPOL 28, which is inside the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Priest-in-charge of the St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Ariaria in Abia North Local Government Area, Archdeacon Julius Dike, has been found dead with his wife and house help. His wife, Agnes, was said to be a staff of the Aba South Local Government Area while the house help was said to be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A United States of America-based Nigerian has reportedly escaped from kidnappers’ den after turning the heat against one of his captors and beating him to a pulp. The man, identified simply as Chinweizu, was said to have been abducted on the Akara Isuikwuato Road in Abia State alongside an unidentified woman. It…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed bandits on Monday went on the rampage again in the Ogbor Hill area of Aba, Abia state, killing four more transaction point of sale (POS) outlet cashiers and carting away money stolen from them. This is coming barely three days after four armed robbers struck at a POS outlet along the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Notable Igbo sons and daughters have begun moves to elicit the support of other regional blocs for the realization of south east presidency project in 2023. They therefore called on every Nigerian to key into the project, saying time has come for the country to produce its next president from the zone….
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The burial of late Elder Ude Jack Ohakwe, father of Investigative Journalist, Publisher and founder of Pointblanknews.com, Jackson Ude, has been scheduled for September 4, 2020, in his country home, Amurie-Nkporo, in Ohafia Local Government of Abia State. Elder Ohakwe died peacefully in his sleep on March 11, 2020, at the age of 82….
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abia State Police Command has arrested one Rose Uwaga for allegedly strangling her 83-year-old husband, Alhaji Isa Uwaga, to death in Umuahia. The Public Relations Officer of the command, SP Geoffrey Ogbonnaya, confirmed the arrest of the woman, who was said to be in her early 70s, to the News Agency…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Supreme Court has quashed the judgement that convicted and sentenced the former governor of Abia State, Orji Uzor-Kalu, to 12 years imprisonment. The apex court, in a unanimous decision by a seven-man panel of Justices led by Justice Amina Augie, held that the Federal High Court in Lagos acted without jurisdiction…