LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Edo on Wednesday said that it had arrested five kidnap suspects in Ahon community bushes on the Benin/Lagos Road. CP Philip Ogbadu, Commissioner of Police in the state, made this known when he paid a courtesy visit to Mr George Edem, Commandant, Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Ekiti State Police Command have arrested a suspected female kidnapper, Mrs Kazeem Tawa, who allegedly attempted to abduct three school children in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital. Spokesperson of the command, Sunday Abutu, who confirmed the incident on Friday, said the suspect woman attempted to kidnap the children by asking with…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Katsina State Police Command has arrested an arm and ammunition dealer, Haruna Yusuf who confessed to have sold over 10,000 arms and ammunitions to bandits in the forest. In a press statement made available to NewsRangers, Katsina State Police Commissioner, CP Sanusi Buba disclosed that Haruna Yusuf claimed to get his supply…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has broken his silence over the order given by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for his arrest. Igboho caused tension in the country when he ordered the Fulani herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government of Oyo State to leave the area within seven days. At…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was drama at Area Court II in Yola, Adamawa State on Wednesday, as the Commissioner for Youth and Sports, Mr. Sanusi Faruk, scaled the court’s fence to escape detention. The commissioner and two others were charged with criminal conspiracy and breach of trust involving N1.728 million. The two are Markus Yara,…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos State have arrested 71 people for allegedly violating the COVID-19 rules in the state. The violators, according to the police were arrested during raids at different night clubs in Lekki and Surulere areas of the state. The image maker in charge of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Reuters cameraman, Kumerra Gemechu, was arrested in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Thursday and will be kept in custody for at least two weeks, his family said. He has not been charged. No reason was provided to the family for Thursday’s arrest, and police did not respond to Reuters’ requests…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nine suspects have been arrested in relation to the fire that razed the Ajeromi- Ifelodun Local Government Secretariat , Ajegunle-Apapa, Lagos during the chaos that erupted following the End SARS protest in Lagos. The Lagos State Police Command, on Monday, Dec 7, paraded the suspects accused of setting the Secretariat on fire on…