LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper, Sani Haruna aka Gayu, who was arrested by the Inspector General of Police special team has confessed to Saturday Vanguard that he has lost count of the number of people he killed for failing to pay ransom. In an interview at one of the safe locations in Abuja where…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two Canadian women have been abducted in Ghana, police said Thursday, a rare attack in a country seen as one of the most secure in the West African region. The Canadians, charity volunteers aged 19 and 20, were taken on Tuesday evening in Kumasi, Ghana’s second city, some 200 kilometres (125 miles)…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Kidnappers on Tuesday night abducted a businessman, Mr. Emmanuel Nwogu, on his business premises in GRA Port Harcourt in the presence of helpless clients and onlookers. Witnesses said the armed men arrived at the DeBooth lounge newly opened by Mr Nwogu early this year between 8 and 9 pm posing as clients…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Osun State Police Command on Tuesday said it had continued to intensify efforts aimed at rescuing the two officers of the Federal Road Safety Corps kidnapped by gunmen on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the officers, simply identified as Abioye and Bayegunni, were kidnapped while returning to their…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ Union (NURTW) have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged kiilings by suspected kidnappers along the East-West road between Bayelsa and Rivers states. According to the CLO and the NURTW, though the state governors of Bayelsa…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers on Monday afternoon blocked the Kaduna-Abuja Expressway, forcing several motorists to abandon their vehicles and head for nearby bushes to avoid being abducted. The development has left many motorists and passengers unaccounted for just as their belongings were carted away by the kidnappers. A Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A couple believed to be kidnappers, escaped being lynched by a mob in Port harcourt, Rivers State after they were apprehended with a stolen baby hidden inside the wife’s bag recently. The couple were apprehended during a stop and search operation by police officers in the state. They are currently in police…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jonah Sokolo, a driver with the Abua Odual Local Government Transport Service, has been shot dead by kidnappers. The kidnappers also made away with all the other passengers in the 30-seater Coaster Bus. The incident occurred on Thursday evening along Emohua axis of the East-West road in Rivers State. The bus was…