LAGOS AUGUST 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Junior officers of the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) comprising of those of the rank of Inspectors and below have decried high level of injustice in the promotion exercise carried out by the force headquarters recently. The concerned officers alleged that rather than following due processes, the promotion was lopsided and was based…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Imo State Police Command has arrested a man who they claimed is an American citizen and self-acclaimed U.S. soldier for impersonation and fraud. The suspect, identified as Garrick Michael Slack, was paraded on Saturday at the command headquarters in Owerri, the Imo State capital. The commissioner of Police, Dasuki Galadanchi, told…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Passengers of the commercial bus which was hijacked last week by suspected kidnappers have been rescued. A senior police officer from the anti-cultism unit of the Rivers State Police Command who led the operation in collaboration with operatives of IGP Monitoring Unit in the state said all occupants of the diverted vehicle…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Human Right Commission (NHRC), on Saturday, said it recorded about one million cases of human rights violations in the country between 2017 and 2018. Mr. Anthony Ojukwu, the NHRC Executive Secretary, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen at a Judicial Actors Coalition meeting in Maiduguri. Ojukwu attributed the numerous…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Magistrate Banji Ayeomoni of Okitipupa Magistrates’ Court in Ondo State, together with his son Dara, another relation and his driver were reported dead in an inferno caused by a petrol tanker spillage in Ekpoma. An official of the court, who spoke on condition of anonymity said the incident happened on Friday night…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person has been killed at NEPA polling center, Lokoja while two agents of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) were also shot by suspected political thugs in the ongoing by-election for Kogi/Koto-Karfe federal constituency. Report has it that some political thugs invaded the polling center to hijack the ballot boxes and one…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo how combined force of Policemen, who were on guard duty foiled armed robbery bank attack on a bank in Igarra, in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. He disclosed that three of the armed robbers were killed during a gun duel. While…
LAGOS AUGUST 11H (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected kidnapper whose identity has yet to be confirmed by the Ondo State Police Command was still sleeping six days after he was taken to the police custody. The suspect was arrested by men of the command on Sunday as he and three other members of his gang attempted to kidnap…