LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) have been warned by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to stop chasing after internet fraudsters in the country popularly known as ‘Yahoo boys’. This, IGP Idris said, was because the “specific role” of the FSARS is to nip “robbery, armed robbery, and kidnapping…
LAGOS AUGUS 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate President Bukola Saraki has reacted to the raid on the residence of the leader of the Pan Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF), Chief Edwin Clark. Saraki, in a statement on Wednesday, described the action by the police officers as a “gross abuse of state institutions”. The Senate President also questioned the timing…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has expressed concern over unethical vices which have been known to engender over-bloated budgetary allocations for salaries, incomes and wages of civil servants, warning that such practices should stop henceforth. The government therefore explained that new civil service culture of efficiency, productivity, incorruptibility and citizenship centred administration must be…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Committee on Ethics and Fair Play, on Wednesday, banned Super Eagles’ Chief Coach, Salisu Yusuf, from all football–related activities for one year. The ban takes immediate effect. He was also ordered to pay the fine of $5,000 to NFF within a period of three months. Yusuf’s ban…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-People’s right activist and APC Presidential aspirant, Mr. Christmas Akpodiete, have dragged the ruling all progressive congress, (APC), the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), & orders registered political party before the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja. The action is…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari have paid for and obtained the expression of interest and nomination forms valued at N45.5m for the president. Members of the group under the aegis of Nigeria Consolidation Ambassador Network were received by the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Adams Oshiomhole, at the party’s national…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos on Wednesday said they had intercepted a five-man robbery gang, including two dismissed military men and recovered goods worth N13.2million from the gang. The suspects who specialise in intercepting and diverting lorries laden with goods were arrested on Tuesday at 8pm while driving a truck with registration number…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria parents, Titilayo and Kehinde Omosebi, have been arrested by the Reedsburg Police in Wisconsin, US, after their son, Ayanfe, starved to death during a religious fast. According to the Facebook page of Reedsburg Police, the father of the deceased, Kehinde walked into the police station to report that his son had…