LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Officer-in-Charge of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, Saki Unit in Oyo State Police Command, has been killed by Fulani herdsmen, the Nigerian Tribune is reporting. The highly authoritative newspaper said the SARS boss, an Assistant Superintendent of Police, was killed on Tuesday night. He was said to have been macheted to death…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A postgraduate female student of the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, has been found dead at Tamburawa river in a suspected case of suicide. A young lady identified as Zubaida Nuhu, who was running a Masters programme at the Department of Water Resources Engineering at the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, has been…
LAGOS FERUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 suspected Internet fraudsters(Yahoo boys) have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for offences bordering on obtaining by false pretence, lottery scam and love scam. The suspects are: Adeyemi Tiwatope, 20; Odeyemi Olawale, 20; Nike Afolabi Olaiya, 20; Awe Abimbola Ireti, 23; Yusuf Aliu Oluwafemi,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kassim Afegbua, the media adviser to former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, who was declared wanted by the police, has sued for fundamental rights enforcement. Afegbua is also demanding N1 billion damages from the police, its spokesperson, Jimoh Moshood, and two media houses.. His legal representative, Kayode Ajulo, filed the suit at the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The operatives of the Lagos State Task Force with officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) today impounded 196 motorcycles to prosecute 72 arrested riders at Lagos Mobile Court, Oshodi, Lagos. The enforcement operations was jointly carried out based on series of complaints from innocent members of the public on…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ahead of the electioneering leading up to 2019 elections, President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu to lead the consultation, reconciliation and confidence building efforts toward improving cohesion within the All Progressives Congress (APC). The information is in a two-paragraph statement issued by Malam Garba Shehu, the President’s Senior Special…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the International Day of zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation is celebrated all over the world today, Wife of the Governor of Lagos State, Mrs. Bolanle Ambode has implored governments, corporate organizations, well meaning Nigerians and the public to join hands to fight against the practice of Female Genital Mutilation with…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abu Jonah, a fake soldier, has been arrested and remaned in Osun State, for parading himself as an army officer and duping about 30 people with the same promise of securing an employment for them in the Nigeria Army, Nigeria Immigration Service, National Security and Civil Defence Corps and other Security outfits….