LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three Policemen yesterday died in a road accident that occurred on the Enugu- Abakaliki highway, Ebonyi State. It was gathered that 10 others who were in the police Hilux van also sustained serious injuries The officers were returning from the crisis-ravaged Effium community in Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state on…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than seven persons have been killed while many were seriously injured as members of the National Union of Road Transport Workers clashed in Effin, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Though details of what led to the clash were still sketchy at the time of filing this report, a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A ten-year-old boy, Master Ifeanyi Umoke, who hails from Inikiri Bernard village in Effium community, Ohaukwu LGA of Ebonyi State, is reported to have been roasted alive over alleged stealing of a small measure of uncooked rice at Inikiri market. The victim, who miraculously survived the roasting, was said to have lost…
LAGOS OCTOBER 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Robbery suspects arrested in connection with the attack on a bullion van and killing of four policemen in Ebonyi State in July have explained how their gang leader, one Clement Abanara aka Millions, planned their operations from Ikoyi prison, Lagos, where he is remanded. The suspects are two dismissed soldiers, Ayeni Samuel…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, is currently hospitalized at the police clinic in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, after a Toyota corolla car rammed into his convoy on his way to Osun state after a burial ceremony in Cross River state. Our corresoondent gathered that the incident occurred at Eche Mass…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking Ishiagu community in lvo Local Government Area of Ebonyi has taken another dimension over who controls a royalty of N200m from a mining company operating in the area. News Express learnt that following the leadership tussle, the community has been divided into two factions, with two chairmen laying claim to…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The popular Udensi Roundabout, few metres to the old Ebonyi State Government House, Abakaliki, was on Thursday afternoon thrown into pandemonium following a clash between Traffic Wardens of the Nigeria Police and some armed Soldiers. An eyewitness, who pleaded anonymity, said trouble started when some Traffic Wardens impounded a tricycle for allegedly…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)- President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a dead former lawmaker from Ebonyi State, Tobias Chukwuemeka Okwuru, to the board of the Federal Character Commission. The appointment of the late Okwuru alongside 37 others was contained in a letter Buhari sent to the Nigerian Senate for confirmation. Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, read out…
