LAGOS APRIL 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A staff of First Bank PLC, Marina Branch, Lagos State, Banniya Babatunde Anthony, has allegedly bolted away with the bank’s money worth millions of Naira and went into hiding. P.M.EXPRESS reports that following the ugly incident the management of the bank has moved against his guarantor, Mowobi Sunday, for falsely claiming his…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four persons have been arrested over the mysterious disappearance of the corpse of an 86-year-old man, Joel Omiran at the morgue of Sacred Heart Hospital mortuary, Lantoro, Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. Those arrested were two mortuary attendants, an auditor, and a plumber. Our correspondent gathered that, the octogenarian died a month…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Political thugs sent to Ila by an alleged All Progressive Congress chieftain to disrupt elections from Iragbiji, Boripe LG has been nabbed by men of the security operatives in charge of surveillance in Ila LG in the early hours of today. They were arrested in their hideouts in an abandoned hotel in…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said over 20 political thugs have been arrested in connection with cases of electoral violence and ballot box snatching recorded in parts of the state during Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin said the police…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 224TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A controversial leader of a Nigerian secessionist movement has been arrested at his home in Finland, the BBC has confirmed. Simon Ekpa has allegedly used social media to incite violence. He leads a faction within the Indigenous People of Biafra (Ipob), which is fighting for a breakaway state in south-eastern Nigeria. The…
LAGOS FEBRUAYRY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The act of man’s inhumanity to man was brought to limelight on Monday by the Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, who narrated how a woman Police Inspector of a division in the Lagos State Police Command was detained for demanding money from a relative of a suspect…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least eight Arsenal fans have been arrested in the Ugandan city of Jinja after celebrating the club’s win against Manchester United in the English Premier League. The fans were wearing the club’s red jersey and carrying a symbolic trophy. Police said they didn’t have a permit to hold the procession which…
LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ruslan Obiang Nsue, one of the sons of Equatorial Guinea’s President, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, has been arrested on suspicion of selling a plane owned by the national airline. Ruslan Obiang was arrested on Tuesday and placed under house arrest as authorities opened an inquiry into the sale of the plane after…