LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops of the Joint Task Force (North East), Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK), have rescued 360 abductees from a heavily fortified Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati wal-Jihad (JAS) enclave in the Mandara Mountains area of southern Borno State. The military described the operation as one of the most significant hostage rescue missions conducted in…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The defection of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso from the African Democratic Congress (ADC) to the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) last month has reshaped Nigeria’s political contest, particularly in the North-west geopolitical zone. This region has been a stronghold of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), where it has won the presidential…
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has arrested three suspected kidnappers who appeared in a viral video openly brandishing AK-47 rifles, ammunition, and walkie-talkies while dressed in military camouflage. Confirming the development to journalists, the FCT Commissioner of Police, CP Ahmed Sanusi, stated that he ordered an immediate forensic analysis into…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has revealed that security operatives foiled an alleged plot by five youths to bomb the Ondo State Government House several months ago. Aiyedatiwa disclosed this on Wednesday while speaking on Channels Television’s Politics Today, shortly after a Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced four persons to death by…
Forty-year-old Radio Nigeria journalist in Kaduna State, James Ogbu, speaks with DANIEL AYANTOYE about how suspected bandits attacked him near his residence, and how his dogs rescued him You were recently attacked by some bandits. How did it happen? I closed from work on Wednesday (May 13, 2026). As you know, I am a broadcast…
LAGOS MAY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos state have arrested a middle-aged man identified as Adamu Abdullahi, a scrap iron dealer, for faking his k!dnap with the intent of extorting N1.5 million from his employers. According to the state Commissioner of Police, CP Tijani Fatai, on May 19, one Abubakar reported at the Police…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Zekeri Umoru, one of the suspected coup plotters, on Wednesday said discussions were held on switching off the electricity supply to the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to aid the alleged coup targeted at President Bola Tinubu and other top government officials. Mr Umoru, a Julius Berger Nigeria Plc employee in the Maintenance…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRNAGERS)-The kidnapped Vice Chairman of Ilejemeje Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Mrs Grace Ogunleye, has regained her freedom from her abductors. The Police Public Relations Officer, Ekiti State Command, Sunday Abutu, who made the disclosure in a statement in Ado Ekiti on Thursday, said that the council official was rescued…