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…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kano State Upper Shari’ah Court, on Thursday, issued an order for the arrest of a Customs officer, Yusuf Ismail, alias Mai Biscuit, following his failure to attend court proceedings, concerning a property ownership case filed against him. The presiding judge, Garba Malafa, gave the order pursuant to the prayer by counsel…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) yesterd arrested three notorious ‘one chance’ armed robbers by Jubilee Bridge around Abule-Egba area of Lagos. In a press statement issued by the Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that they were arrested by LASTMA personnel alongside…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 18-year-old female student of the Niger State College of Health Sciences, Kontagora, the Headquarters of Kontagora LGA of Niger State, Zubaida Sanusi, is currently being held in police custody for allegedly working as an informant for bandits. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Shawulu Ebenezer Danmamman, who revealed that said…