LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hell was let loose on Sunday afternoon in Agenebode, the headquarters of Etsako East Local Government Area of Edo State as several persons were reportedly killed over allegations of kidnappings and killings in the area by suspected criminals. This was even as the police station in the area, alongside vehicles in the…
LAGOS JUNE 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper has been shot dead by a joint security operatives during a mission to rescue 13 persons who were abducted at Isua, headquarters of Akoko South-East Local Government Area of Ondo State. The 13 persons were heading to Abuja when gunmen abducted and marched them into the forest. A source said…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected smugglers at the wee hours of Friday attacked a Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) team around Oke-Odo, Lagos, fleeing with a service rifle and a vehicle laden with confiscated rice. The smugglers, said to have outnumbered the Customs officials, ambushed the operatives while on their way to their office at Ikeja to…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers of three vehicles including their drivers have been kidnapped along the Emohua axis of the East-West road in Rivers State. The victims were kidnapped around 9 pm on Wednesday. A member of a local vigilante group in the community, who confirmed the incident, said one of the vehicles was a fully…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress (APC) in Ondo state and a member of the state Executive Committee of the party, Honourable Bamidele Emmanuel Isibor, has been shot dead by suspected kidnappers. Isibor, aged 62, a father of five, was attacked in company of three others on their way from Imoru to Ifon,…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry mob on Tuesday attacked Kware Divisional Police Station in Sokoto State and lynched a suspected kidnapper. Members of the mob, who are residents of the area, went violent and also set ablaze a car belonging to the Divisional Police Officer and two other police vans. The Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension on Saturday at the busy Computer Village market in the Ikeja area of Lagos State after three suspected kidnappers were caught inside a tunnel and arrested by police operatives. SaharaReporters learnt that some traders in the market raised the alarm that some criminal elements were hiding in the tunnel,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command has arrested a 50-year-old man identified as Adamu Musa, his son, Sule Mallam and grandson, Isyaku Sule for allegedly hacking their neighbour, who they claimed was a kidnapper, and his 5-year-old daughter to death. It was gathered that the incident occurred at Gomo Village, Sumaila Local Government…