LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Oil companies have asked security services to tighten surveillance as violent anti-police brutality protests and the expected sacking of hundreds of workers worsen desperation in the region, industry sources told Reuters. Already unemployment is above 40% in Nigeria’s energy regions and observers say further job losses could aggravate problems of pipeline tapping,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have reportedly abducted eight passengers of a commercial bus between Okhuessan and Emu in Esan South East Local Government Area of Edo State. DAILY POST gathered that the bandits also reportedly robbed all the occupants of the Toyota Hiace bus and dispossessed them of their valuables on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has said that the Tuesday billion robbery was arranged. The State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Hakeem Odumosu described the attack as a premeditated operation. Mr. Odumosu said that preliminary investigation has revealed t that the bullion van left without any security escort. The armed gang had hijacked…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have abducted 12 Assistant Superintendents of Police on their way to Zamfara from Borno state for a special assignment, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has reported. BBC reported that the police officers were on their way to Zamfara to conduct a special operation when they were waylaid and abducted by the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Although a UN helicopter undertook a mission to Banki in Borno State Tuesday, it was not shot down nor did it crash, the Nigerian Air Force said in a statement Tuesday. PREMIUM TIMES had earlier reported an helicopter incident in Banki, a border community with Cameroon, with a humanitarian worker suggesting the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram Terrorist group has released a new video a few days after the military authorities in Nigeria declared him wanted. According to Shekau in the new video, he dared the military, declaring that he and his fighters can’t be arrested by the military and even if…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was heavy gridlock along the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway, Lagos as commercial motorcycle riders (popularly called Okada) clashed with officials of the Lagos State Task force on Tuesday morning. The Cele-Express to Mile 2 axis of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway was mostly affected as Motorists stayed in traffic for hours while pedestrians ran helter…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has shared a video which captured moment he discovered weed in yams he was asked to deliver abroad. According to the man, a friend asked him to make the delivery but he discovered the weed in the yam after he decided to go through what he was asked to…
