LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen who kidnapped at least 287 school children in Nigeria last Thursday have demanded a ransom of 1 billion naira ($621,848) and threatened to kill all of the students if their demands are not met, a member of the local community told CNN on Wednesday. “They called me from a hidden number…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits, who abducted 16 residents of the Gonin Gora area of the Kaduna metropolis, have demanded a ransom of N40 trillion for their release. Bandits on Wednesday 28 February attacked the Gonin-Gora community, a suburb of Kaduna metropolis in the Chikun Local Government Area, kidnapping 16 residents. On Monday, leaders of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly abducted a corpse along with all the family members conveying it from Lagos to Nsukka in Enugu State. Vanguard reports that the remains of late Mr Ugwuanyi Israel from Ameze Owerre, Umabor community in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu State, was being conveyed home by family members when…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man, who has been identified as Safiu Kareem, has raised an alarm regarding the abduction of his father, Akeem Kareem, and an undisclosed number of individuals in the Ofosu area along the Benin-Ore Expressway. Safiu told The PUNCH correspondent that the bandits, who abducted the victims on Wednesday afternoon, were…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Widows of military officers who died in the Hercules C130 military jet that crashed in Lagos on December 26, 1992, have called on the Nigerian military and the Federal Government to pay them their late husbands’ entitlements. The PUNCH reports that the military-transport plane crashed soon after takeoff from Lagos, killing all…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The criminal elements who abducted Alhaji Mansoor Al-Kadriyar and his six children are demanding the sum of N60 million as ransom for their release. The victims were abducted on Tuesday night, January 2, 2024, in the Bwari Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory. According to the Daily Trust, the bandits later…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A groom and his family members have been abducted on their way to Kogi State for his wedding. A family member of the bride, Serah Ibrahim, who disclosed this on Tuesday, December 26, 2023, said the kidnappers demanded N250m ransom. “So my mum just told me that her cousin’s fiancé and all…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers of the wife of a Redeemed Christian Church of God’s pastor, Mrs Blessing Ajiboye, have demanded a ransom of N100m from the family to release her. Blessing, wife of Pastor Johnson Ajiboye a senior pastor of RCCG, was abducted in her provision store at Elerinjare, a sleepy town in the Ifelodun…