LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-IF anyone still doubted that criminals have overrun parts of Nigeria, the audacious bandits that stormed Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, Katsina State, on December 11 and ferried away over 300 boys erased all such illusion. The kidnapping was spectacular in itself; the fact that the terrorists struck in a town a…
LAGOS DECEMBR 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium on Saturday afternoon at Ugonoba, before Ugoneki, after Benin Bypass, Edo State, when about 10 armed robbers blocked the Expressway, shot two passengers and robbed other motorists and their passengers. The heavily armed gunmen had hijacked a truck which they used to barricade the road and started robbing travellers…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kidnappers have reportedly returned to Abuja-Kaduna Highway, the gateway to Nigeria’s seat of power and Northwestern state of Kaduna. Motorists who experienced a recent attack by the kidnappers said the criminals operate between 5 am and 7 am and 7 pm and 9 pm on a daily basis and operate on motorbikes….
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The absence of police personnel and other security operatives in critical areas including some highways in the country has made the citizens vulnerable to attacks, Daily Trust reports. Reports by our correspondents revealed that sundry crimes including armed robbery and kidnapping were on the rise in some parts of the country following the near…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Frank Okiye, has raised the alarm over a plot by the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodinma and stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo State, to import a fake mace to violently take over the Edo State House of…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Floyd Mayweather has got Newcastle fans hooked after revealing that he would be interested in buying the club. The boxing superstar was at the O2 City Hall in Tyneside on Saturday night as part of his “An evening with” tour. Moderator Steve Wraith said, “the last time you were in Newcastle it…
