LAGOS JULY 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Tunde Raphael, 24, who was last week arrested by officials of the Rapid Response Squad (RRS) of the Lagos State police command, has explained how he and 19 other gang members dispossessed motorists and commuters of their belongings in Mile 2 bridge during traffic. Tunde, who was arrested at about 5:00a.m. along with…
LAGOS JULY2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The parents of a schoolgirl, Bilikisu Oseni, are in distress after she left her mother’s shop in the Odogunyan, Ikorodu area of Lagos State, without returning home. The 14-year-old was reported to have left the shop with a boyfriend, identified only as Wahis, on Sunday, June 24, 2018. Wahis, a motor boy, had…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NESRANGERS)-After over two years in the detention of the Department of the State Services, a Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Federal Government to release former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, on bail. The reprieve for Dasuki, who was clamped into detention since December 29, 2015, came in…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Police officers deployed to Borno State on special duty on Monday took to the streets, barricading the highway to protest six months of unpaid allowances. The police officers were said to have been deployed to Borno State from various units across Nigeria to help in the fight against insurgency. The angry police…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The plan by the opposition parties to form a grand alliance to challenge the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, which is certain to present President Muhammadu Buhari as its standard-bearer in the 2019 election, is finally taking shape as the parties have almost concluded the terms of the alliance. Sunday Tribune learnt…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-French leader Emmanuel Macron will on Tuesday visit the Afrika Shrine, a nightclub in Lagos founded by Nigerian music legend Fela Anikulapo Kuti. Macron will become the first “real president” to enter the club synonymous with marijuana smoke, sexy backup dancers and protest music. And he is not a stranger to Nigeria….
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The newly promoted Commissioner of Police, Damian Okoro, has warned officers at the Special Fraud Unit, Ikoyi, to shun corruption or be shown the way out of the force. Okoro gave the warning on Sunday at Ikoyi, Lagos, while decorating 27 officers who were recently promoted by the Police Service Commission. The…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Pastor T.B. Joshua of the Synagogue Church Of All Nations in Lagos, Nigeria has called for urgent prayers for Nigeria against “interruption of the democratic practice” in the nation. Speaking to congregants on Sunday during a service beamed live via the Christian television network, Emmanuel TV, the cleric stated he had received…