LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Abuja, has ordered the arrest of a former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Usman Jibrin, and two other officers over N1.5 billion money laundering charges preferred on them by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC). The court issued the arrest warrant after…
LAGOS MAY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, have arrested an Assistant Superintendent of Police, identified only as Kulu, alongside her accomplice, one Elizabeth, for allegedly abducting five children. The children abducted includes a less than two-week-old-baby girl from Sokoto State, three toddlers under the age of two, and a five-year-old…
LAGOS APRIL 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on April 2 took into custody Ifediora Oli, a dual citizen of Nigeria and the United States, for allegedly conniving with two persons to defraud the District of Columbia public transit system after securing a Covid-19 testing kit contract worth more than half a million dollars….
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police in Nigeria’s northern state of Kano arrested 11 Muslims on Tuesday who were seen eating food during the Ramadan fast. Kano has a majority Muslim population, where an Islamic legal system – Sharia – operates alongside secular law. The Islamic police, widely known as Hisbah, carry out searches of…
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-This is a ‘True Life Story’ of a man whose building was under construction but got all the burglary proofs, all wirings and power generator carted away by robbers. According to this ‘Strange Story’, published on the official X.com of the Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO in Lagos State, SP Benjamin Hundeyin…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has confirmed the arrest of Labour Party’s National Chairman, Julius Abure. Politics Nigeria earlier reported that Abure was arrested on Wednesday afternoon in Benin City, the Edo State capital. Speaking on his arrest, spokesperson for the Nigeria Police Force Zone 5, Tijani Momoh, said Abure was nabbed by…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos State Taskforce has arrested 51 suspected members of a highway gang notorious for harassing and extorting truck drivers along the Apapa/Oshodi and Lagos/Badagry Expressways in the State. The arrest was effected on Tuesday following a successful operation led by the chairman of the Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye. A media aide…
LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Hisbah Board has arrested no fewer than 52 commercial tricycle operators popularly known as Yan Adaidaita Sahu over alleged immoral haircuts, selling illegal drugs and substances and mixing with females in their vehicles. The tricycle riders were apprehended by operatives of the Hisbah command in different parts of the…