LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State have just been rescued, security sources revealed. Security sources revealed this on Friday. The operation was coordinated by the Office of the National Security Adviser. The rescue effort involved security agencies, including the police, DSS, and military personnel, along with support from the…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-.An Army officer, Captain J.O. Abalaka (N/15198) has regained freedom after he reportedly successfully disarmed a member of the kidnap gang that abducted him in Kogi State. According to report monitored in Saharareporters, Abalaka was abducted last week along Ekpoma/Okene/Lokoja Road. The incident reportedly occurred while Abalaka was reporting to his new…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five men linked with a series of armed robberies and kidnappings along the Numan-Jalingo have been arrested. The Adamawa State Police Command, which disclosed this in a statement obtained Tuesday morning, said its operatives, working in collaboration with hunters on May 10, 2024, arrested the suspects. “The arrest was as a result…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Ogun State Police Command, on Tuesday, neutralised two kidnappers terrorising travellers on the Sagamu Ijebu-Ode-Benin expressway. The kidnappers were killed when the police engaged them in a gun duet on Tuesday during a rescue operation. The police also recovered N7.9 million and 1500 Indian Rupees suspected to have been part…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Personnel of the Nigerian Navy Ship (NNS) Pathfinder, on Monday, rescued over 250 persons including children following a boat mishap, involving a cargo boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, along Buguma waterways in Asari-Toru local government area of Rivers State. The commercial boat, MV Precious Emmanuel, was conveying goods worth millions of Naira from…
LAGOS APRIL 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A stray dog foraging for food has retrieved an abandoned baby boy in a forest in Abagana, Njikoka Local Government Area of Anambra State. The stray dog was said to have carried the infant across a busy road and kept him in a public glare, apparently for passersby to pick up for…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the forthcoming Edo State gubernatorial election slated for later in the year, Senator Monday Okpebholo, aka Akpakomiza, has congratulated the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, His Excellency, Senator Uba Sanni, and the good people of Kaduna State, on the successful rescue of…
LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 50 persons, some of them children from neighbouring African countries, were, yesterday, rescued from a duplex on Omola Road, in the Edemola area of Epe, Lagos. News filtered around Epe and the entire Lagos State that the rescued persons, foreigners, were kidnapped and kept in the kidnappers’ den, pending when…