LAGOS APRIL 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen have kidnapped the Federal Commissioner representing Bayelsa State at the National Population Commission, Mrs Gloria Izonfuo. She was said to have been abducted on Sunday evening around the Ogbakiri junction along the East-West Road in Emohua Local Government Area of Rivers State. Izonfuo was travelling to Port Harcourt, Rivers State…
LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Friday morning killed five policemen at the Okpala Junction in the Ngor Okpala Local Government Area of Imo State. Also killed were a couple identified as Mr and Mrs Chinaka Nwagu who hailed from Amankwo Okpala community. The incident has thrown the junction and the entire community into a state…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have killed two aides and kidnapped their boss, who is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The kidnappers also shot three of the police escorts attached to the senior lawyer. It was gathered that the policemen, who sustained various degrees of injuries in the attack, have…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) officer, identified as Commander Popoola Azeez Olasupo. SaharaReporters gathered that Olasupo was kidnapped around 6:30 am on Sunday around Eledumare-Fidiwo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway while he and his colleagues were on an official assignment. Olasupo’s…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums believed to be bandits has abducted the traditional chief of Oghara in Kabba Bunu Local Government Area of Kogi state, an aide while a female domestic worker was shot dead by the gunmen The incident occurred around 3 am in the early hours of Tuesday. Our Correspondent gathered that one person…
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers have abducted the village chief of the Chida community in Kwali Area Council of the FCT, John Kwayidami, and 13 of his subjects. City & Crime learnt that an 18-year-old boy, identified as Solomon, was shot in the leg by the kidnappers while attempting to escape. A resident of Chida, Ishaya…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three female students of the same parents were abducted by gunmen last Thursday, on their way from school in Ikeja, Lagos. The parents of the victims, Mr. and Mrs. Otulana, said they were yet to get a message on why they were abducted. The victims, two secondary school students and their little…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Nassarawa State has confirmed the abduction by gunmen of a former Deputy Governor of the state, Prof. Onje Gye-Wado. The confirmation is contained in a statement on Friday in Lafia by DSP Ramhan Nansel, Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in the state. Gye-Wado was deputy governor of Nassarawa…
