LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two mobile police officers were on Monday shot dead in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. On Tuesday morning, the police announced the arrest of nine suspects connected to the murder. The mobile police are considered a specialised unit within the Nigerian Police Force and are believed to be better trained and equipped than…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State government has directed state-owned primary and secondary schools to stop collecting fees and levies from pupils and students with immediate effect. Nyesom Wike gave the directives on Monday during a meeting with the Heads of Primary and Secondary Schools, Senior Secondary Schools Board and Universal Basic Education Board at…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command, on Sunday, rescued six kidnap victims, including four corps members, who were abducted in the Emohua area of the East-West Road. A kidnap and armed robbery kingpin, identified as Zulu Ogwumike, aka Black Bush, was also killed during a shootout in a separate operation by the personnel…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGRS)-No fewer than ten persons were repoted to have lost their lives in early morning pipeline explosion at Kom kom in Oyigbo Local Government Area of Rivers State. The Rivers State Police Command confirmed the death of three persons in the raging fire caused by the pipeline explosion in the state, while…
LAGOS MAY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) and the National Union of Road Transport Workers’ Union (NURTW) have sent a protest letter to President Muhammadu Buhari over alleged kiilings by suspected kidnappers along the East-West road between Bayelsa and Rivers states. According to the CLO and the NURTW, though the state governors of Bayelsa…
By Amos Okioma LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Joint Task Force (JTF) deployed to protect oil installations in the Niger Delta on Sunday confirmed the kidnap of two expatriate oil workers from an oil rig in Abua community in Rivers. The abducted foreign oil workers, a Scottish and a Canadian were working at an onshore oilfield…
LAGOS APRIL 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unidentified gunmen on Friday hijacked a corpse at Ahoada in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State and demanded a ransom of N1m before it releasing it. Eye witness account had it that the corpse, which was being conveyed home for burial by church members, was hijacked along Ahoada road by…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Jonah Sokolo, a driver with the Abua Odual Local Government Transport Service, has been shot dead by kidnappers. The kidnappers also made away with all the other passengers in the 30-seater Coaster Bus. The incident occurred on Thursday evening along Emohua axis of the East-West road in Rivers State. The bus was…