LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Twenty medical students who were kidnapped in Benue State have just been rescued, security sources revealed. Security sources revealed this on Friday. The operation was coordinated by the Office of the National Security Adviser. The rescue effort involved security agencies, including the police, DSS, and military personnel, along with support from the…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A dispatch rider was confirmed dead, and two others were rescued following a multiple-vehicle accident along the Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos. The accident occurred near Chevron, heading toward Ikota, along the expressway. Preliminary investigation revealed that a high-capacity ‘T&M’ bus (AKD 952 XZ) lost control due to brake failure while speeding, colliding…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos State Magistrate Court in Ogba has discharged six men who were arrested during the 2000 #EndSARS protests and have spent almost four years in prison. The defendants, identified as Daniel Joyinbo, Adigun Sodiq, Kehinde Shola, Salaudeen Kamilu, Sodiq Usseni, and Azeez Isiaka, were set free by Magistrate Bolanle Osunsanmi on…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Lagos lawyer and human right activist, Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo has slammed Nigeria Inspector General Police IGP Kayode Egbetokun over his statement that his life was transformed after meeting President Tinubu in 1998. Recalled that the IGP, while speaking at the unveiling of a book in his honour titled “Readings in Policing,…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people have been killed and another four seriously injured in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen, police say. The attack happened during a festival in the city centre on Friday evening. The attacker is reported to be still at large. German media outlet Bild says a man…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A client who admitted trying to murder his own solicitor in his office has been jailed for 11 years. Esayas Neguse entered the Glasgow office of Muhammad Shoaib in September 2022 and stabbed him in the neck and body with a knife. As two of Shoaib’s colleagues tried to intervene, he headbutted one…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A contract staffer with the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, Asher Christopher, has reportedly died while on duty. It was alleged that the 23-year-old Christopher had fell off from the five-storey building and died while carrying out his duty on Tuesday. However, the family of the victim has called for a…
LAGOS AUGUST 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)- Fidelity Bank has reacted to media report of Nigerian Data Protection Commission (NDPC) fine of N555.8m over alleged data breach. The Bank in a statement signed by Dr Meksley Nwagboh, Divisional Head, Brand & Communications of Fidelity Bank Plc made available to NewsRangers disclosed that while the matter is a subject…
