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)-The Media Adviser to former Anambra State Governor, Mr. Peter Obi, has alerted the public on a sinister plot to rubbish the reputation of his principal through the sponsorship of false and malicious publications, especially in disreputable online platforms and in the Social Media. In a statement he issued in Awka on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said five people are laying claim to the N49million its operatives intercepted in sacks at the airport in Kaduna. It said the Federal High Court in Kaduna would soon give judgment on the puzzle over the cash. The anti-graft agency said the cash had…
LAGOS SEPEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A major facelift came the way of Pacelli School for the Blind and Partially Sighted in Lagos on Friday when Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) made donations of furniture and air conditioners to the school. This came barely a year after the staff of the company under the Shell Employees…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have dismissed an operative of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Inspector Charles Omotosho, over an allegation of extortion. The Force Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU) revealed this in a series of tweets on Friday, three months after Omotosho was arrested for the offence. His dismissal was approved by…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-At least, 30 Nigerian soldiers died in combat with Boko Haram militants who overran a military base in Zari near the border with Niger, two military sources told AFP on Saturday. Scores of the terrorists in trucks stormed the base at Zari village in northern Borno State late on Thursday and briefly…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-President Muhammadu Buhari stunned participants at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) last Sunday in Abuja when he said the rule of law must be subject to the supremacy of the nation’s security and national interest. Buhari, at the conference, declared that where…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-one alleged prostitutes, 99 per cent of whom are Nigerians, have been arrested by the Weija District Police Command in Ghana. They were arrested around a place called Choice, where several drinking joints operate at night, according to Chief Inspector Diana Eninful, who led the operation. She said the police received several…