LAGOS JULY 31st (NEWSRANGERS)- Police have arrested a barber in Umuahia over allegations that he kept customers’ hair for ritual purposes after officers allegedly found a clay pot filled with human hair and other suspected fetish items in his room. The barber, identified simply as Emeka, was arrested on Tuesday after his neighbour, Mr…
LAGOS JULY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The news of the arrest of Adeniyi Adeyemi, the Director-General of the fake Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council (PFIPC) broke on Tuesday few hours after a Federal High Court in Abuja ordered his arrest. Adeyemi was smoked out and arrested from his hideout in Osun State by operatives of the Intelligence…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSANGERS)-Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 38-year-old South African woman at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja, after discovering 5.75 kilograms of heroin concealed in her luggage. The agency said the suspect allegedly used her three-year-old son as a cover in an attempt to…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former G4S security guard wore his old uniform to trick bank staff into handing him more than £117,000. Kwabena Kissi, 40, walked into a Santander branch in Brixton, south-west London wearing a uniform, helmet and mask with visor. He was buzzed into a back room where staff handed over cash…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian husband of Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Executive Mayor, Lulama Titi-Odili, has been arrested in Bloemfontein after police uncovered 28 suspected undocumented foreign nationals at a guesthouse linked to him. The arrest was confirmed earlier yesterday by Free State Premier, MaQueen Letsoha-Mathae, following a joint operation by the South African Police…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The boyfriend of a Citibank Vice President who was beaten to death in her southeast London flat has been arrested after more than a year on the run. Brian Kiprop Kiplagat was arrested on June 10 after being intercepted by immigration officers at the border of Namanga as he attempted to cross…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A 41-YEAR-OLD Sao Paulo Brazil-based businessman, Abugu Oliver Ikechukwu, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for importing shirts and towels starched with 6.10 kilograms of liquid cocaine from the South American country into Nigeria. Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, made this…
LAGOS MAY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former footballer has been arrested on suspicion of decapitating his friend before setting the body alight. Fire crews were called to a grass fire in Curacavi, Chile, where they uncovered the charred remains of a man on April 12. Emergency crews discovered a Bible placed next to the victim’s severed…
