LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unspecified number of passengers are feared dead as a vehicle skidded off the road and plunged into an excavation pit in Ebonyi on Saturday. The pit is about 32 feet deep. The accident, which occurred around 1:30pm, happened along Abakaliki-Ikwo expressway at Enyigba-Izzi community in Abakaliki Local Government Area. Officers from…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year-old man, Martin Odanwu has allegedly beaten his 11-year-old stepson, identified as Edeh Destiny. Odanwu was said to have beaten the boy to death for being outside their home at an odd hour. The incident occurred at Amaofia Ngbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. Meanwhile, the Police in Ebonyi…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ebonyi State government has denied reports making that rounds in the media that bomb explosion has killed a suicide bomber in Efikpo describing it as fake news. While denying the news in a press statement signed by Francis Nwaze, Special Assistant to the Governor on Media and Publicity, sighted by NewsRangers the…
LAGOS MAY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Ebonyi State Police Command following investigations into the foiled bank robbery on the Onueke branch of a commercial bank in Ebonyi State which occurred on Tuesday, 27th April, 2021 the operatives of the Nigeria Police Force attached to the Ebonyi State Police…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three police officers were shot dead while on duty at about 7:30PM Wednesday along Nwezenyi road in Abakaliki. The officers who sustained bullet wounds during the attack were later confirmed dead by doctors at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Teaching Hospital Abakaliki. Their bodies have also been deposited at the hospital’s mortuary….
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the killing of some people in Ishielu local government area of Ebonyi State, last week, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, the South East leadership of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), says the body has ordered with immediate effect, the relocation of all cattle breeders from Ebonyi State…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ebonyi State on Tuesday detained a woman believed to be a commercial sex worker for allegedly trying to sell her baby for N40,000. The woman has been identified as Victoria Chukwube, 32. The four-month-old boy was still breastfeeding. The woman said she wanted to sell the child to raise…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A brother-in-law of the Governor of Ebonyi State Governor, Mr David Umahi and a younger brother of his wife, Mrs. Rachel Umahi has been arrested and paraded by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) police command in Abuja for kidnapping. The arrest of the young man, identified as Chukwu Betherand, also popularly known…