LAGOS AUGUST 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Defence Headquarters to begin investigation of the incident involving the troops of 93 Battalion, Takum, Taraba, which resulted in the death of three police officers and a civilian. Chief of Air Staff, Sadique Abubakar, said President Buhari gave the directive on Thursday during a meeting of…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Victor Ogungbenro, a journalist with Sahara Reporters who was arrested by the police during the #RevolutionNow protest at National Stadium, Surulere, Lagos has been released. Ogungbenro and eight others were released on Tuesday after perfecting their bail conditions. They were first held at Area C command before later moved to Lagos State…
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 AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Protesters defied the Federal Government order banning them from holding the #RevolutionNow protest called by the publisher of Sahara Reporters, Mr. Omoyele Sowore. Sowore, who was arrested on Saturday by operatives of the Department of State Services on account of the then scheduled protest, was the presidential candidate of the African Action…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWRANGERS)-Chiemela Iroha, one of the five persons abducted off the Lagos─Ore Expressway at Ogbere (Ogun State) has given insight into why the “Fulani herdsmen” kidnapped and herded them into the forest. Iroha and four others – as Chidioze Eluwa, Okoro Ohowukwe, Ndubuizi Owuabueze, and Ibeleji Chidinma ─ were abducted at the J3,…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-An unidentified man has reportedly strangled a young woman identified as Maureen after having sex with her in a hotel located in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. The incident was said to have happened on Peremabiri Street, D-Line in the Rivers State capital. It was gathered that Maureen believed to be the man’s girlfriend,…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The parish priest of St. James the Great Catholic Church, Ugbawka, Enugu State, Rev. Fr. Paul Offu, has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen. Fr. Offu was killed late Thursday at Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu. The Communication’s Director of the Catholic Diocese of Enugu, Rev. Fr. Benjamin Achi, has confirmed…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police have arrested two suspected fraudsters who impersonated officials of the Nigeria Customs Service auctioneers on Facebook and other social media sites. Operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team (IRT ) who arrested the suspects have warned members of the public to be wary of fraudsters who…