LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Awoleye Oluwatofunmi, who allegedly defrauded an American national, Vonapolouis Moss, of $ 1000. The state Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, disclosed this while parading the suspect before reporters at the police headquarters, Ilorin, on Friday. He said the suspect presented himself…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected armed robber has been lynched by an angry mob for allegedly robbing a unisex salon on Governors Road in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect was part of a three-man gang that attacked the salon around 11am on Saturday and dispossessed both workers and…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The London Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom, has said it is probing a 71-year-old man who was arrested at Heathrow Airport on Sunday on suspicion of rape This is as controversy surrounded the arrest of the founder of DAAR Communications Plc, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who was delayed by the Met Police at Heathrow…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The founder of DAAR Communications Plc, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, has reportedly been released from the custody of the police in the United Kingdom. An online platform, The Whistler earlier reported that Chief Dokpesi was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London on Sunday, January 8, 2022. However, the DAAR Communications management in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The Nigerian Army has rescued a female Lieutenant, P. P. Johnson abducted by unknown gunmen terrorising the South-East part of the country. A trending video showed the officer being tortured by the gunmen after she was abducted in her hometown, Ihube. She was said to have travelled to her hometown for…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command, on Thursday, paraded 13 suspects, among whom were three killers of a United States-based Ogbomoso-born hotelier, Gbenga Owolabi, and a final year student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Rachael Opadele, in Ibadan. The state Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, who paraded the suspects at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 21 (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in northern Nigeria’s main city has arrested 19 Muslims, accusing them of attending the wedding of a same-sex couple. The force raided the marriage ceremony in Kano after a tip-off, its spokesman Lawal Ibrahim Fagge said. The couple, who had not yet taken their vows, managed to flee…
LAGOS DECEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Autopilot faction of ESN, Simon Ekpa has been arrested earlier today by international Police popularly called “Interpol”. Finland based Simon Ekpa is a self-acclaimed member of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) He was alleged to have declared five-day sit-at-home order that has led to the killing of many…