LAGOS MAY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) has said passengers should brace up for rigorous health checks at the airports, flight delays and increase in airfare when restrictions are lifted and operations resume post COVID-19. Speaking at an aviation webinar organised by Women in Aviation (WIA) Nigeria, with the theme: Aviation: The…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected bandits over the weekend attacked travellers on the Birnin-Gwari – Kaduna highway killing, kidnapping and injuring travelers. The attacks took place on Saturday evening and on Sunday evening. Some of the kidnapped victims of the Saturday attack were said to be students who were on their way back to Birnin-Gwari from…
LAGOS FEBUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 30 people have been killed in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno region after suspected Boko Haram Islamists set ablaze several trucks carrying passengers on Sunday night, eyewitnesses and residents told Reuters. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the Boko Haram group and rival Islamic State in West Africa (ISWA) splinter…
LAGOS JANUARY 13TH (NEWRANGERS)-A bus preacher was almost lynched at popular Upper Iweka Park in Onitsha, Anambra State, southeast Nigeria when some condoms reportedly fell out of his bible as he preached the ‘Word of God’. Uche Chukwujekwu, an eyewitness and passenger at a popular commercial bus service provider going to Lagos and other parts…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A cargo plane carrying presidential staff has crashed in eastern Congo and all eight passengers and crew are feared dead. Debris of the plane has been found, but the people aboard are still missing, said adviser Vidiye Tshimanga, in a chat with Reuters on Friday. Congo Civil Aviation Authority, in a statement,…
LAGOS OCTOBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious kidnapper in Rivers state, Brown Ike Ekwueme (a k a Lucifer), has been killed by men of the state Police command on Monday. The spokesman of the police in the state, Nnamdi Omoni who broke the news in a statement in Port Harcourt the state capital last night said, Ekweme…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police, Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC) and the DSS operatives rescued 14 passengers kidnapped by gunmen at Ajeogun Junction between Otan Ile and Imesi Ile in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State on Sunday. The Commissioner of Police, Mrs. Abiodun Ige, said all the victims abducted on Sunday evening by gunmen…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 23RD {NEWSRANGERS)-Top-notch member of Odua People’s Congress(OPC) in Osun State and personel of Nigeria police have declared manhunt for suspected Fulani herdsmen who abducted fourteen passengers in Osun state. The suspected Fulani herdsmen were reported to have kidnapped about fourteen passengers at Ajeoku junction, along Otan-ile-Okemesi road in Obokun Local Government of Osun…