LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has initiated measures that would result in the total reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Force, the Police have announced. Police spokesperson, Force headquarters, Jimoh Moshood, who gave this indication in a statement on Friday, and made available to Daily…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former governor of Anambra, Mr Peter Obi, has said that the Nigerian economy is on life support due to the rising debt profile of about N22.7 trillion. Obi, disclosed this at the ‘2018 This Generation Conference’ organised by the Summit Bible Church, with the theme, “Taking Responsibility, Making Nigeria Great”, on…
LAGOS AUGUST 26H (NEWSRANGERS)-The new leadership of the Department of State Security (DSS) may have started making good its promise to review cases of all detainees in its custody, according to indications yesterday. Seven Ijaw youths from Bayelsa State who were arrested two years ago and locked up in the organization’s cell since then were…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family members of a missing four-year-old girl, Elo Ogidi, were overjoyed on Friday after she was found in an orphanage in Benin, Edo State. Elo was reportedly stolen from the Christ Embassy in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos State, during a church service she attended in company with her parents and their housemaid on…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Divisional Police Officer in charge of Pen Cinema Police Division, Lagos State, Harrison Nwabuisi, has been recalled to the state Police Command headquarters following the corruption allegation leveled against him. According to a statement signed by the Spokesman of the command, CSP Chike Oti, Nwabuisi was recalled by the Commissioner of…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The third mainland bridge has been temporarily shut down for an investigative maintenance test. The bridge was shut down on Thursday midnight after it was earlier announced by the Lagos State government. Different government agencies and officials were seen on Thursday night waiting for the midnight deadline before the eventual closure of…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In protest over the killing of one of them, Tunde Nafiu, the people of Iwo town in Osun State, South West of Nigeria, have set a police station ablaze. Nafiu was said to have been killed by members of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. Nafiu, described as a student of the Federal…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A civil rights organization, Network for Peace and Development (NPD) has called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the lawmaker representing Brass constituency 1 in the Bayelsa State House of Assembly, Hon. Israel Sunny-Goli for the recent killings and violent attacks in Twon-brass. The NPD said if Sunny-Goli is not arrested…