LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at the Pakri grain market in the Bali Local Government Area of Taraba State as men armed with sophisticated weapons invaded the market and abducted three grain merchants. It was gathered that the gunmen, numbering up to twelve, invaded the market situated along Jalingo-Bali Road in the early hours…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former senator from Akwa Ibom State, Nelson Effiong, has spent more than 50 days in captivity, since he was abducted by gunmen around September 6 in Uyo. Antai Effiong, a lawyer and younger brother to the former senator, told PREMIUM TIMES, Wednesday, that he was yet to be set free by…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abductors of worshippers in Maza-Kuka Community, Mashegu Local Government Area of Niger State, have demanded N60 million ransom from families of the victims. Gunmen had invaded the community in the early hours of Monday when villagers were observing early morning prayers and killed no fewer than 18 people while several others were…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and the 36 State governors in the country to rally and earnestly begin the process of correcting the ills in society. CAN President, Rev Samson Ayokunle, made the call in a message to mark Nigeria’s 61st Independence Day Anniversary in…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS) — The Taliban hanged a dead body from a crane parked in a city square in Afghanistan on Saturday in a gruesome display that signaled the hard-line movement’s return to some of its brutal tactics of the past. Taliban officials initially brought four bodies to the central square in the western…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Eredo, Ejirin and Epe communities on Sunday charged Lagos State Government for protection against kidnappers. The residents, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, in Epe, noted that kidnapping of residents and indigenes of Epe Division of Lagos State was on the increase. This, they stressed…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old pastor, Ndifreke Udo Amos, has been arrested by operatives of the FIB Intelligence Response Team (FIB-IRT) for allegedly helping a kidnap gang in the abduction of an 80-year-old man, Pa Anthony Ugbuzor Idornigie. The octogenarian victim was said to be sitting in his house at No 7, Garage Street, Itoki,…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger State has signed into law a bill prescribing death by hanging for cattle rustlers, bandits, kidnappers and their informants. The House of Assembly passed the bill on July 1, 2021. Bello said the Kidnapping and Cattle Rustling Special Provisions Law of 2016 was amended to provide for…
