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…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspects in connection with the abduction of four policemen at Aba Tuntun village, Ijebu-Igbo, in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state. Some hoodlums had reportedly waylaid a team of policemen in the village on Thursday, abducted four of them and shot…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos based human rights lawyer and one man protester, Chief (Barr) Malcolm Omirobo has been arrested for embarking on a one-man protest and demanding to see President, Muhhamadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja. While attempting to progress into the villa, Omirobo was approached by CSP Isah Hadejia who tried…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has arrested drunken police officer seen in a viral video. The officer was seen in a drunk state at CBN junction close to police command headquarters in Abuja on Saturday, November 28th. Residents disarmed him to prevent him from shooting sporadically. In a statement released on Sunday morning,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the revocation of Abdulrasheed Maina, former Chairman, defunct Pension Reformed Task Team (PRTT)’s bail. Okon Abang, the judge, who gave the order in a ruling, also issued a bench warrant for Mr Maina’s arrest “anywhere he is sighted.” The EFCC’s lawyer, Mohammed Abubakar, while…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Abubakar Shekau, leader of the Boko Haram Terrorist group has released a new video a few days after the military authorities in Nigeria declared him wanted. According to Shekau in the new video, he dared the military, declaring that he and his fighters can’t be arrested by the military and even if…
