LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Kogi State Police Command has announced the successful foiling of two kidnapping attempts targeting 23 passengers along the Lokoja/Kabba road on Monday. In a statement released by the state Police Public Relations Officer, SP William Aya, the operation was described as “part of sustained efforts to rid Kogi State of…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-The Kogi State Police Command has arrested one suspect following another attack on the family home of the suspended senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. The suspect, identified as Jose Suberu, was reportedly apprehended at the scene of the attack in Ihima, Okehi Local Government Area, on Tuesday. Confirming the development to…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The spate of kidnapping across the 21 local governments in Kogi State, between April 26 and May 20, has put the state under focus in recent times. A record of reported incidents in various communities within 25 days shows that over 28 persons were abducted, excluding those reportedly kidnapped in three buses,…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A night of prayers turned into a nightmare on Friday when armed men stormed a mountain-top vigil in Egbola area along Agbaja Road in Lokoja Local Government Area of Kogi State, abducting an unspecified number of worshipers. It was reported that the attackers invaded the remote prayer ground in the dead…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have abducted 18 passengers of an Abuja-bound ABC Transport bus in Kogi State. Retired Commodore Jerry Omodara, the security adviser to the Governor of Kogi, confirmed the development to newsmen on Thursday. He noted that the incident occurred on Sunday, March 16, when the bus, which was…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bus driver, Ali Isah, has narrated how he escaped gunmen who kidnapped Afenifere Youth Council President, Prince Eniola Ojajuni, last week Monday in Ondo state. In a video exclusively obtained by The Nation, the driver who suffered gunshot injury from the kidnappers said the incident occurred at Akuni, an Ondo bother…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Six students of Federal University Lokoja, FUL, and a driver have d!ed after an articulated vehicle rammed into the institution’s shuttle bus on Monday, Feb. 17. According to an eyewitness, the incident occurred at about about 2.30 pm on Monday. Six people, comprising of students and the driver of the FUL shuttle…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some gunmen kidnapped scores of GIGMobility bus passengers on Saturday in the Obajana area of Kogi State. SaharaReporters learnt that the GIGMobility bus was moving from Lagos State to Abuja on Saturday, when it was attacked by gunmen around Obajana heading to Lokoja. The kidnappers took all of the passengers away, but…