LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A private jet having about 10 persons onboard including Very Important Personalities (VIPs) has overshot the Ibadan airport runway in the Oyo State capital. An impeccable source said the incident happened on Friday around 11 am at the Samuel Ladoke Akintola Airport. The jet with registration number, N580KR, missed the runway and skidded…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A business woman in Gboko Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state identified as Mrs. Nguhemen Sesugh has been reportedly murdered by conmen who also buried her remains in a shallow grave. It was gathered from a source in Gboko that the deceased who before her death traded in bags of rice was…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hundred of passengers on Abuja/Kaduna train are currently stranded in Dutse, Kaduna, as the train developed faults few minutes into the journey. Five minutes after the train departed the Rigasa Station in Kaduna, it developed a mechanical fault. Twice, the train stopped before getting to Dutse, where it finally broke down. Midat…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the Imo Airlines commissioned by the former Imo state governor, Rochas Okorocha was spotted abandoned at a bushy part in Owerri, the state capital. The abandoned commercial airline known as Imo Air was reportedly seen rotting away at Sam Mbakwe International Cargo Airport, Owerri. This monumental aircraft operated by Dana…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command said it has commenced investigations into the sudden disappearance of Mr. Hanson Chuku, a graduate of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rivers State. Chuku, a councillorship aspirant under the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Rundele ward 7 in Emuoha Local Council of the state,…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The kidnapped Leader of the All Progressives Congress in Edo State, Presley Ediagbonya, had been found dead in the bush, two days after he was kidnapped. Though the police could not confirm the development, the member representing Ovia Federal Constituency of Edo State, Denis Idahosa, described it as a sad development. Ediagbonya,…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an effort to check incessant incidents of kidnapping along the Benin-Lagos highway, the Edo State Police Command, yesterday, deployed five bulldozers to commence the clearing of a section of the forest along the road. The state Commissioner of Police, Danmallam Abubakar, disclosed that the forest is to be cleared 50 metres…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-An aircraft belonging to Air Peace on Saturday overshot the runway and slid into the bush at the Port Harcourt international airport in Rivers state. A passenger on board was quoted to have said that the incident occurred around 4pm when the plane was about to land at the airport, despite the…