LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWRANGERS)-Some worshippers were abducted when bandits attacked a mosque in Giwa Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Sources told Daily Trust that the armed gang struck during evening prayer (Ishai prayer), on Thursday. “They surrounded the mosque and abducted 14 people. They also carted away an unspecified number of cattle from Tudun…
Three children aged between 18-months and four years old were said to have been kidnapped from one family and two others snatched from another family. The mother of the first three abducted children, Rose Monday, told newsmen in Port Harcourt that the woman took her children when they went over to their neighbours to play….
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the Imo State Police Command have arrested one Pastor Izuchukwu Anoloba, 35, and others for kidnapping a Catholic priest, Fr Fidelis Ekemgba. Parading the suspects and others, the state Commissioner of Police, Rabiu Hussaini, said that the suspects held the priest for over seven days and made him to…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Tuesday morning stormed the staff quarters of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) and abducted a professor of economics, Obansa Joseph, two of his children, and other people. A resident said the gunmen invaded the senior staff quarters at Giri in Gwagwalada Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Ondo State on Saturday confirmed the abduction of two little girls of nursery and kindergarten classes and the stealing of their mother’s car in Akure. DSP Funmilayo Odunlami, Police Public Relations Officer in Ondo State told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the abduction took place on Friday night….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Masked gunmen have abducted Air Vice Marshal Sikiru Smith (retd.), in the Ajah area of Lagos State. Smith is a cousin to a former Inspector-General of Police and current Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Musiliu Smith. It was learnt that the retired general, who is currently the Chairman of Double Wealth…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent release of three separate groups of students who had been abducted in northern Nigeria brought joyful reunions and the hope that others still held might soon be freed. Now just days later gunmen have again attacked a school in the northwest, taking 73 new hostages. Before Wednesday’s attack some 1,000…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Police Command has confirmed the abduction of 19 students of Naval College of Engineering, Sapele, Delta State by gunmen. The students who were traveling in two vehicles, an 18-seater bus and a Toyota Sienna bus, on Monday were reportedly traveling from Kaduna State to Sapele. They were however ambushed and…