LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Ondo state police command yesterday vowed to root out all criminal hiding in the forest along the Ore- Lagos expressway Commissioner of police in the state, Undie Adie at a meeting last night with chiefs and leaders of communities along Ore-Lagos said that their days are numbered. A statement by the command…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Facts have emerged on how the three victims of kidnappers in Ode-Omi in the Ogun Waterside Local Government Area of Ogun state were released from their captors. A family source told our correspondent on Monday that the kidnappers collected a sum of N3.5m, a carton of Schnapps, 30 litres of palm oil…
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…