LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ondo State Police Command has arrested a 29-year-old nursing mother, Simeon Esther, for allegedly concealing two AK 47 rifles inside her baby’s bag. Detectives attached to Ilaje/Ese Odo Local Government Area of the state arrested the suspect, who is currently cooling her heels in the custody of the State Criminal Investigation and…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 300-level student of the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, University of Benin (UNIBEN), Miss Christabel Omoremime Buoro, has committed suicide after a break-up with her boyfriend of many years. Christabel, aged 21, was discovered on Tuesday evening at her hostel flat at Plot 4, Uwaifo Lane, Newton Street, Ekosodin area in…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force (NPF), Wednesday (19/05/19), paraded an alleged kidnap for ransom kingpin, certain Abubakar Umar, said to have made over N200 million from kidnappings within the last six months. Umar was paraded alongside 37 other suspects, with one Abubakar Ahmadu, arrested over the kidnap of the chairman of the Universal…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Audu Adamu Madaki, the Commissioner of Police in Adamawa State has revealed how herdsmen use their cattle to conceal and smuggle dangerous firearms into Nigeria. At a briefing on the security situation and the wave of kidnappings in the state on Wednesday in Yola, Madaki said three “repentant” kidnappers who turned in…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command says three passengers and a driver were kidnapped after gunmen hijacked a bus along Emohua axis of the East-West Road. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, while confirming the incident, said the armed men struck at Evekwu in Emohua. Omoni added that commercial…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senate president, Ahmad Lawan, has come under criticism following his appointment of Festus Adedayo as special adviser on media and publicity. Adedayo has reportedly been a staunch critic of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and the ruling All Progressives Congress. Supporters of the party expressed their disappointment over the Senate president’s appointment…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Federal authorities seized 15,500 kilograms of cocaine from a south Philadelphia port Tuesday. The drugs were removed from seven shipping containers that had arrived in Philadelphia on the cargo ship MSC Gayane. Investigators believe that the drugs were loaded onto the ship in the Bahamas, which was its last port of call…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWRANGERS)-The Seme Area Command of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) said it thwarted a desperate criminal move by smugglers who concealed 55 wraps of cannabis under a corpse being brought in from Ghana along Owode axis. The Customs Area Controller of the command, Comptroller Uba Garba Mohammed who disclosed this in a…
