LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ekiti State Amotekun Corps has arrested a man identified as Celestine with counterfeit new N1,000 notes amounting to about N250,000. The suspect claimed to be a Lagos-based businessman from Anambra State and said he was heading from Lagos to Isanlu in Kogi State to buy kolanut and bitter kola when he…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A combined team of officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, the Independence Corrupt Practices and other related offenses Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have arrested four Point Of Sale, POS, operators in Makurdi for extorting their customers. The team, led by the CBN Director of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Petroleum marketers have called for the arrest of the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Col. Hameed Ali (rtd), for flouting a judgement of the Federal High Court (FHC), Abeokuta, Ogun State, over arrest and auctioning of 24 petrol-laden tanker trucks as scraps. LEADERSHIP reports that Justice Shittu Abubakar of the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ogun State Police Command have arrested two persons who bought the stolen vehicle belonging to ex-Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) staff, Mr Kehinde Fatinoye, and his wife, Bukola Fatinoye. The couple, and their only child, Oreoluwa, were murdered by three people, including the family driver, Lekan Adekanbi, who is…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man living in Saudi Arabia identified as Wasiu Ismail has been arrested and detained. SaharaReporters gathered that Ismail was arrested on January 7 after Saudi Riyal equivalent to N5million was found in his car booth. “He was arrested on 7th and we didn’t hear anything from him till 15 when…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Police Command has arrested two men, parading themselves as journalists, for allegedly defrauding a rice trader of N33,000. The 30-year-old suspects, Mujahid Kabir and Abba Imam, were alleged to have, on February 2, 2023, generated a fake bank transfer alert of N33,000 to buy a bag of rice at…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Enugu State has said it has arrested the woman in a trending video allegedly extorting money before issuing Permanent Voter Cards to their owners. This was contained in a statement by the command Public Relations Officer, DSP Daniel Ndukwe, on Thursday in Enugu. “Police detectives serving in the…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The 9 Brigade of the Nigeria Army, on Monday, paraded 116 suspected miscreants arrested in an early morning raid of black spots as part of Still Water Operation in the Lagos State. LEADERSHIP gathered that the suspects were arrested on the railside, Brown street, Araromi and other parts of Oshodi axis of…
