LAGOS JULY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of Tanzania’s main opposition party Chadema and other members were arrested early Wednesday ahead of a planned conference to demand constitutional reforms, the party said. Freeman Mbowe and 10 Chadema members were rounded up in the dead of night in the northwestern port city of Mwanza, it said on Twitter….
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo also known as Sunday Igboho, has been arrested in Cotonou, Benin Republic, The PUNCH has learnt. He was arrested at an airport in Cotonou on Monday night, a top source familiar with the matter told our correspondent. Igboho was arrested by the security forces in Benin Republic…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian Biafran separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu has been arrested and “brought back” to the country to face trial, the justice minister said Tuesday. Kanu’s outlawed movement, the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), which agitates for a separate state for ethnic Igbos in southeast Nigeria, is accused of fomenting violence, something which it…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four suspected armed robbers have been arrested for hijacking a trailer load of Golden Penny flour long Shagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway of Ogun State. The suspects who carted away the items on April 16 were arrested by operatives of the Ogun State Police Command on May 5, police authorities confirmed to Channels Television…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Brazil based drug kingpin has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who also intercepted 36 blocks of cocaine, weighing 27.95 kilogrammes with a street value of over N8billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos. A statement signed by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Three suspected armed robbers have been arrested in Lagos, amongst them is an apprentice who surrendered a customer’s car used for the robbery operation. The apprentice, identified as Samuel Adebisi and two others , Kayode Damilola and Kazeem Akeem were alleged to have robbed residents of Westwood Estate Langbasa in Ajah area…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Abia state Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has apprehended a suspected notorious supplier of illicit drugs, particularly Cannabis in Abia State, Chibuike Apollos, and equally marked his residence for demolition. He was arrested on Wednesday during an early morning raid on his hideout at Mbausi in the…
LAGOS APRIL 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine Nigerians suspected to be inmates who fled during a jailbreak at the Owerri Custodial Centre in Imo State have been arrested while trying to enter Ghana after arriving in a boat, it was announced on Monday. On April 5, over 1,884 prison inmates were said to have escaped after some armed…