LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Security agencies have increased their presence around commercial banks in Oyo town after armed robbers reportedly wrote a commercial bank in Owode area of the town. The Nation reliably gathered that robbers wrote to the branch about one month ago, telling the manager to prepare for their attack soon. It was gathered that…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely three weeks after some armed men attacked a bullion van in Ondo town, some daredevil armed men again attacked another bullion van in Emure Ile in Owo Local Government Area of Ondo State. The robbers who attacked the bullion van belonging to a commercial bank started shooting at the van in…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Motorists and commuters plying the Eko Bridge, Lagos State, have lamented increasing attacks by armed robbers on them. PUNCH Metro gathered that while robbers broke into cars and commercial vehicles in broad daylight and dispossessed people of their valuables, the police were nowhere to be found. Our correspondents, who spoke to victims…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Some armed men on Wednesday struck in Ikire and Apomu, Irewole and Isokan local government areas of Osun State, killing five persons in Ikire after attacking two new generation banks and a police station. It was gathered that the armed robbers had earlier robbed a bank in Apomu town around 5:00 p.m….
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Ifelodun, Kuburatu-Agbede and other areas in the Ifako-Ijaiye Local Government Area of Lagos State have been living in fear after armed robbers invaded 10 houses and dispossessed occupants of their valuables. PUNCH Metro gathered that no fewer than 15 armed robbers attacked the residents in their various homes around 1am,…
LAGOS APRIL 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command says its operatives have arrested a gang of armed robbers at Ojota area of the State. According to command’s spokesman, Muyiwa Adejobi the operatives of D9 (Anti Robbery) Section of the State Criminal Investigation Department, Panti, Yaba on Saturday 17th April, 2021 arrested the suspects. He said…
LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Contingents of Team Nasarawa were attacked by gunmen, on their way back from the recently concluded 20th National Sports Festival held in Benin City, Edo State. According to a statement by the spokesman of the Nasarawa State Ministry of Youth and Sports Development, Eche Amos, the armed robbers accosted the team at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen have reportedly snatched N20m from accountants attached to Office of the Cabinet Department of the Ekiti Governor’s office on Wednesday during an attack. The accountants were said to have been waylaid while returning from a new generation bank along Government Secretariat road, Ado- Ekiti where they had gone to withdraw the…