LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A police orderly (name withheld) has been shot and killed in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. According to eyewitnesses, the sad incident occurred around the popular Landmark hotel at Olu Obasanjo road on Friday night. The male police inspector was escorting his principal when he was shot at with the assailants escaping…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security agencies comprising Port Harcourt Security Watch, popularly known as PHALGA, Rivers State Neighbourhood Watch and Azikiwe Police Division, yesterday, arrested about 12 Internet fraudsters (Yahoo Boys) for allegedly burying a newborn baby alive at Andoni waterfront in Eagle Island, Port Harcourt. Chairman of the council’s security outfit, who doubles as the…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than five persons were electrocuted while trying to mount a billboard in the Obiri-Ikwerre area of Rumuosi in the Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of the Rivers State on Monday. Also, four others who received life-threatening burns are currently battling for their lives at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Sixteen persons were feared dead last night following an explosion that occurred near a jetty in Okirika Local Government Area of Rivers State. It was gathered that a pipe used in loading fuel at a Port Harcourt Refining depot spilled on July 31, unknown to the workers that the hose pulled out…
LAGOS JULY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-According to Port Harcourt official social media account on Wednesday, the newly launched Rivers palliative bus was seen stranded on the road. Most People claim that “this is total disservice to the people of Rivers State, what an ignominious and obscene. On the first day that a free bus was set to…
LAGOS JUNE 27 (NEWSRANGERS)-A vehicle carrying bags of diesel believed to be illegally refined product popularly referred to as ‘Kpo fire’ in the Niger Delta, burst into flames while on transit along NTA Road, Mgbuoba, in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, on Saturday night. The incident, which happened in front of Aganorlu Street,…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Taskforce Against Human Trafficking has arrested a 48-year-old man, Anthony Igbinogun, and his girlfriend, Joy Umukoro, 28, for allegedly selling their one-month-old baby. It was reported that the suspects allegedly sold the baby to fund their drug addiction. The suspects were arrested with their friend, 26-year-old Precious James, who…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A girl, identified as Nnnena Onu working for a hotel in Ebocha in the Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State, has been allegedly tortured to death by her employer following her failure to account for the sum of N17,500. It was gathered that the girl was locked in one of the…