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…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A high court in Owerri on Friday evening released, unconditionally, the 114 women suspected to be members of the outlawed Indigenous Peoples of Biafra. The women were remanded by a magistrate’s court in Owerri on Monday and Thursday respectively, after they were arrested and arraigned by the Police for demanding to know…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission on Friday denied reports it budgeted six billion Naira to feed the Police during next year’s elections. The 2019 general elections budget of N189.2bn is subject to approval by the National Assembly and has been pending due to ongoing recess of both legislative chambers. But, INEC has…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A middle-aged Nigerian man, Isa Mohammed Munlaila pictured above with a box on his head, today began trekking from Lagos to Abuja to kick against the 2nd term ambition of President Buhari. Speaking to newsmen in Lagos as he embarked on his journey, Munlaila said Nigerian youths were angry with Buhari for…