LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two married men were arrested with a woman’s severed head in Abuja. Peter Ochigbo, 42, from Otukpo in Benue state, married to Rebecca Iche, and Samuel Bachu, 35, a married father-of-five, also from Otukpo in Benue state, were arrested this week by police in Abuja. When questioned, Peter Ochigbo said he was…
The Abuja division of the Court of Appeal has set aside the judgment of Federal High Court Abuja, removing Godswill Akpabio as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District. A three-member panel of justices read by Justice Danlami Senchi on Monday held that Akpabio failed to file a proof…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Abuja High Court sitting at Maitama has ordered that the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, be remanded in prison custody, following his alleged disobedience to a valid court order. The court, in a ruling that was delivered by Justice Chizoba Oji, found the EFCC…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRA politician, a banker, and another suspect who allegedly stole N1.4Billion from a bank through Internet hacking and cracking have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). According to a statement from EFCC, the Kogi State House of Assembly candidate of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Ismaila Yusuf…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission raided the offices of black market currency dealers in Abuja on Tuesday in a bid to halt the rapid fall of the naira. Naira plunged rapidly between Monday and Tuesday to more than 840 in Abuja a week after the the Central Bank of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Following heavy bombardments by security operatives in the North East and North West, some insurgents have relocated to the nation’s capital where they disguise as menial workers. A security source disclosed this to Daily Trust while reacting to the security advisory by the US Mission in Nigeria. On Sunday, the US embassy…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGER)-The body of a 13-year-old boy, Tosin Otun, who was swept away by flood on SCC Road in the Buhari area, Abuja, has been found. According to his sister, Toyosi, the victim was sent to get a goat tied beside a drainage channel close to their house when the incident happened on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In furtherance of his zeal and strategies to decimate activities of non-state actors and other criminal elements in the FCT and other parts of the country, and to analyze and de-escalate threats gathered from various intelligence at the Force’s disposal, U.S advisory inclusive, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba…
