LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWRANGERS)-Gunmen on Monday took 18 passengers on board a commercial bus and the driver captive along East-West road area of Emohua Local Government Area (LGA), of Rivers state abandoning the bus. Eye witness account had it that the assailants suspected to be kidnappers marched the victims into a thick forest unchallenged, leaving…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police Command said it had arrested 41 suspected kidnappers after it rescued seven victims, including three staff of Lafia Hospital Apata Ibadan on Saturday. The staff had been reportedly kidnapped on Tuesday at Ogunmakin along Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State while coming from Lagos. The Police Public Relations Officer…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Rivers State have adopted new strategy to end perennial kidnapping along East-West Road and Elele-Owerri Road in the state. The Rivers end of the East-West road linking the state to other parts of the country had been a hotbed for kidnappers, targeting passengers of commercial transporters. Hundreds of commuters…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Kaduna State Police Command has arrested a 32-year-old Nigerian Army officer, Lance Corporal Koza Yabiliok, for allegedly selling ammunition to suspected kidnappers. The Command has also arrested 61 other criminal suspects for various offences across the state in the last two weeks. Lance Corporal Yabiliok serving in one of the military units…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty-two Soldiers and seven policemen were among no fewer than 310 Nigerians killed in May following the insecurity in the country, a report by a media tracking group, Nigeria Mourns, has revealed. According to the report released in Abuja on Thursday, Zamfara, Borno and Katsina States topped the list of the States…
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Omo N’ Oba N’ Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II of Benin has raised the alarm that criminal elements, including bandits and herdsmen, are building camps in forests within his kingdom. The Oba, who disclosed this when he met with Enigie (dukes) in his kingdom in Benin yesterday, urged them to…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command, on Sunday, rescued six kidnap victims, including four corps members, who were abducted in the Emohua area of the East-West Road. A kidnap and armed robbery kingpin, identified as Zulu Ogwumike, aka Black Bush, was also killed during a shootout in a separate operation by the personnel…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Worried by the spate of insecurity, the Nigeria Army, 32 Artillery Brigade, Owena Barracks, Akure, Ondo State, has deployed drones that will help to comb the vast forests in Ondo and Ekiti states. The Brigade Commander, Brig. General Zakari Logan Abubakar during the launch at Osi in Akure North area of the…