LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Bayelsa State Police Command has launched manhunt for the kidnappers of Bayelsa State Commissioner for Trade and Commence, Mr Otokito Federal Oparmiola and rescue of the victim. Spokesman of Bayelsa State Police Command, SP Asinim Butswat who confirmed the abduction of the Commissioner said preliminary investigation revealed that the kidnappers stormed the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian security forces are searching for armed gangs who killed 47 people in attacks in recent days in rural areas of the country’s northwest, the latest killings in the troubled region. The attacks took place in the northwest Kaduna state which neighbors Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, Kaduna commissioner for security Samuel Aruwan…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have abducted a Department of State Services operative during an attack on residents in Abaji, Abaji Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Saturday. The hoodlums also killed a vigilante member during the incident which occurred overnight, PUNCH reports. The armed men were said to have invaded the community…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A number of gunmen have launched coordinated attacks on banks in Yagba axis of West senatorial zone of Kogi State, on late Tuesday afternoon. killing a yet to be ascertained number of persons. The marauders started their raid at about 4pm on Tuesday in Egbe town, Yagba West Local Government Area, LGA….
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have abducted the mother of the Chief of Staff to Governor Yahaya Bello, Abdulkarim Asuku, in Kogi State. Seriya Raji, the victim was reported to have been abducted from her residence on Monday evening at Inese/Ovakere New Layout in Nagazi community, Channels Television reported. Nagazi community is located in Adavi Local…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the Pakri grain market in the Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State as men armed with sophisticated weapons invaded the market and abducted three grain merchants. It was gathered that the gunmen, numbering up to twelve, invaded the market situated along Jalingo-Bali Road in the early hours…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen attacked a rural village in northern Nigeria, killing 16 worshipers at a mosque and kidnapping others, said a local official. The assault on Ba’are village in the Mashegu area of Niger state lasted for hours on Thursday, local government chairman Alhassan Isah Mazakuka said. Dozens of the assailants arrived on motorcycles…
LAGOS There was palpable tension in Aramoko-Ekiti, Ekiti West Local Government area of Ekiti State yesterday, as a policeman and a Special Marshall of the Federal Road Safety Corps, were shot dead on Monday evening when armed robbers attacked a branch of an old generation bank located in the community. This was the second time…