LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Enugu State have rescued a 40-year-old lady from the Philippines, Irene Torento Panas, who was lured to Nigeria by a 54-year-old man named Chukwudi Odo. The woman was rescued six months after arriving Nigeria from her country in an apparent but unsuccessful search for love. Panas, an accountant by…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unnamed man has been rescued after jumping off Third Mainland Bridge into the Lagos Lagoon. The Rapid Response Squad (RRS) said in a tweet on Thursday that the man alighted from a cab on Wednesday night claiming he wanted to urinate. He jumped into the lagoon but landed on a log…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely three weeks after the Bayelsa Police Command freed a six year old kidnap victim, the Command on Thursday said it foiled another incident and freed two victims kidnapped on Wednesday. The kidnappers met a resistance when policemen responding to a distress call accosted them while attempting to put the captives into…
LAGOS 1ST NOVEMBER (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Lagos Thursday evening uncovered an illegal healing centre where about 15 persons were chained. It was gathered that some of the victims had been chained since 2014 at the place called Blessings of Godness Healing Church in Isheri Osun, Egbe Idimu. It was gathered that some of the victims…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRNAGERS)-All the five pastors of the Redeemed Christian Church of God kidnapped on the Sagamu-Benin highway on Friday have been rescued, the Ogun State Police Command said. Earlier on Saturday, the woman in the group, Mrs Ibelegbo Chidinma, a deaconness was rescued. The rescuing of four other pastors followed, Police Public Relations…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The immediate past Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose hosted the Vice Presidential candidate of the PDP, HE Peter Obi in his Lagos residence. They had fruitful discussions on how to rescue Nigeria and its people from APC govt and reposition the Southwest going forward. As the Southwest Coordinator of the PDP…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers of the commercial bus which was hijacked last week by suspected kidnappers have been rescued. A senior police officer from the anti-cultism unit of the Rivers State Police Command who led the operation in collaboration with operatives of IGP Monitoring Unit in the state said all occupants of the diverted vehicle…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people were reported to have roasted to death as result of a fuel-laden tanker that exploded along the Otedola Bridge axis of Berger in Lagos with the blaze engulfing at least forty other vehicles. The tanker was heading out of Lagos towards the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when the crash occurred, causing…