LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Criminal Investigation Department, Lagos Command, has arrested 55-year-old Oluwole Akande, for allegedly impersonating the Police Commissioner Railway Command, CP Yetunde Longe, and defrauding an 80-year old man of N250 million. The Commissioner, Railway Command, Longe, confirmed the arrest to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos. Longe said…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Police Inspector and his two female accomplices have been arrested by the police over a missing baby in Lagos state. The police inspector identified as Samuel Ukpabio who is attached to the State Criminal Investigation Department SCID, is accused of forcefully abducting a baby boy from the mother, 35-year-old Fortune Obafuoso. Punch…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant woman, Mrs Mary Barka has been killed when some kidnappers suspected to be bandits armed with locally made -in- Awka guns invaded Pelachiroma village of Hawul Local government area of Borno state. The suspects who have since been arrested by the Chairman of Hunters, Mohammed Shawulu Yohanna were handed over…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives attached to Obi Division, Nasarawa state have arrested one Isa Nana Okpoku ‘M’ 75yrs of Daddare Development Area, Obi LGA, Nasarawa State for allegedly raping his four-years-old Niece. His arrest was based on consequent upon a report that was lodged at the Divisional Police Headquarters on Saturday, 10/12/2022 at about…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Malawi has arrested its Vice President Saulos Chilima and charged him with graft over a bribery scandal involving a British-Malawian businessman, the country’s anti-corruption watchdog said. The president’s deputy — who has been stripped of his powers — has been charged with several counts of corruption and taking bribes to influence government…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two married men were arrested with a woman’s severed head in Abuja. Peter Ochigbo, 42, from Otukpo in Benue state, married to Rebecca Iche, and Samuel Bachu, 35, a married father-of-five, also from Otukpo in Benue state, were arrested this week by police in Abuja. When questioned, Peter Ochigbo said he was…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya was arrested Wednesday at JFK Airport days after his UFC 281 loss to Alex Pereira. Adesanya was arrested for possession of metal knuckles, New York’s Port Authority Police Department (PAPD) spokesperson Lenis Valens told MMA Junkie on Wednesday. TMZ Sports was first to report the news….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 1,000 people were arrested in 37 cities across Russia during protests against President Vladimir Putin’s Wednesday order for the partial mobilisation of reservists to the war in Ukraine, an independent rights group said. Despite criticism of the military being illegal, protests broke out across the country and hundreds were arrested,…