LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has halted temporarily, the withdrawal of policemen attached to Very Important Persons to enable the force to carry out an assessment of the current personnel deployment. He stated that the withdrawal would now take effect from April 20, 2018. Idris, in a statement on Thursday, in…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Social and economic activities between Kwara and Oyo states have been paralysed since Sunday following the invasion of Ilorin-Igbeti highway by gunmen. Several travellers have fallen victims of the hoodlums who allegedly kidnapped and collected huge ransom from their victims, Dailytrust reports. News of the invasion first emerged on Wednesday last week,…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-A Cross River State High Court sitting in Calabar on Wednesday sentenced a retired worker of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Godwin Elewana, to death by hanging. Elewana was found guilty of the murder of the 22-year-old boyfriend of his daughter, Douglas Ojugbo. He killed Ojugbo on March 10, 2015 over suspicion that…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa State High Court sitting in Yenagoa has sentenced Police Sergeant Jilla Lannubo to death by hanging for extra-judicial killing. The policeman was arraigned for the extrajudicial killing of one Oruyegha Grand in the Agudama area of Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, on May 13, 2017. Lannubo, a native of Bokos…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected cult members on Tuesday set ablaze the Oporoma Police Division in Southern Ijaw Local Governmemt Area of Bayelsa in desperation to free a detained member of their gang. It was gathered that the cult member who was on Police wanted list for various crimes including kidnapping, sea robbery, armed robbery and acts…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-Boko Haram members on Wednesday freed dozens of abducted Dapchi school students. The fully armed sect members who returned the girls moved into the town in a number of vehicles. A photo showing the convoy leave the community has emerged. This is contradictory toMinister Of Information, Mr Lai Mohammaed statement whch disclosed that…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says it’s delighted that the girls abducted on 19 February 2018 from a school in Dapchi, Yobe state, northeast Nigeria were returned safely to their families. The Nigerian government confirmed early on Wednesday that 105 girls out of the 110 abducted have gained their freedom while five…
LAGOS MARCH 22ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The People’s Democratic Party, PDP, has described the events leading to the kidnap and release of the Dapchi schoolgirls by the Boko Haram insurgents as a scam by the APC-led government. The Presidency confirmed the release of 101 out of 110 schoolgirls kidnapped from the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC), Dapchi, Yobe…