LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command and the Nigeria sports sector were thrown into mourning, following the sudden passing of the state deputy Police spokesman, Christian Udogu. According to a close source in the command, Udogu, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, was with his family on Wednesday evening watching a programme on television…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected cultists have invaded the Computer Village in Ogunabali, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, harassing shop owners and extorting money from them. This came as shop owners and traders in the area called on security agencies to come to their rescue and save them and their wares. Some…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State after a yet-to-be identified lady jumped into an uncompleted building and set herself ablaze. Members of a vigilante group which discovered the tragedy were alerted by smoke bellowing from the building. By the time they got there, they saw the burnt body…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike, said that approval has been given for a Nigeria Law School campus to be sited in Port Harcourt, the State capital. A Government House press statement issued in Port Harcourt on Wednesday by the governor’s Special Assistance on Media, Kevin Ebiri, said that the governor made the…
LAGOS MAY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was confusion in Rivers State at the weekend as the police denied storming hideout of some of the fleeing wounded gunmen in Oyigbo Local Government Area, Rivers State, killing four of them and a female nurse. It was earlier gathered that a tactical team of the Nigerian Police carried out the…
LAGOS APRIL 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Report has emerged on how suspended Nigeria Ports Authority Manager, Hadiza Bala, was involved in a clandestine ploy to shortchange a company in favour of Africa’s richest, Aliko Dangote. Last year, some coastline terminals formerly operated by Integrated Logistics Services’ (INTELs) in Onne ports complex, Rivers state, were confiscated and subsequently awarded…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen on Friday night attacked security checkpoints and police stations in Rivers State, with no fewer than seven security operatives feared killed. The hoodlums attacked a police station along the Rumuji axis of the East-West Road in the state Also, the Rumuji police station in Emuoha Local Government Area was also torched;…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Port Harcourt Zonal Office, has arrested the leader of a syndicate involved in the buying and selling of human organs for trafficking to foreigners. The leader identified as Ukaeje John Emeka (alias Dr. Phil Mark, Dr. Donald Phillip, Dr. Wesley David), was arrested on April 16,…
