LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following the ambush of Bauchi State Auditor-General, Abdu Aliyu and his family by suspected kidnappers, his son, 25-years-old Zilkifiru Mohammed has returned home after escaping from the kidnappers’ den. Mohammed, who was kidnapped on Saturday evening alongside his father’s friend, Iliyasu Suleiman, along Bauchi-Tafawa Balewa highway after the Auditor-General was shot in…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was drama at Area Court II in Yola, Adamawa State on Wednesday, as the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr. Sanusi Faruk, scaled the court’s fence to escape detention. The commissioner and two others were charged with criminal conspiracy and breach of trust involving N1.728 million. The two are Markus Yara,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The robbery gang that attacked a bullion van in Lagos a fortnight ago in Lagos, reportedly doled out parts of their loot during their escape. A source who made the revelation to DAILY POST said the magnanimity of the criminals was not to clear a gridlock but “a show-off”. The assailants had…
LAGOS November 22nd (newsrangers)-Five escaping prisoners died on Saturday when their car hit a tree after more than 60 detainees broke out of a Lebanese detention centre outside the capital Beirut, Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) said in a statement. The ISF statement did not say how the 69 prisoners had escaped from the facility,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A member of the House of Representatives, Nicholas Garba Sarkin Noma reportedly escaped death when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle. The spokesperson for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kaduna state, Abraham Alberah Catoh, said the attack occurred along the Kwoi-Fadan Kagoma road on Saturday, October 3, The Sun reported. Sarkin…
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 AUUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected serial killer, Sunday Shodipe, has narrated how he escaped from Mokola Police Station, Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday. The suspect said a female Divisional Police Officer, who was recently deployed to the station ordered one officer (Funsho) to allow him to take his bath. He said the officer had warned him…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A leading member of the Edo Peoples Movement (EPM), a splinter group of Edo State All Progressives Congress (APC), Barrister Henry Idahagbon, Thursday survived assassination attempt on his life. Gunmen suspected to be assassins reportedly stormed Idahagbon’s office on 52b Siluko road in Benin City, the state capital and fired repeated shots…