LAGOS SEPTEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS), have been said to have arrested two women suspected to be supplying bandits with arms and ammunitions in Kaduna, Niger and environs. The suspects identified as Rashida Umar and Rukaiya ladan, were arrested in Fadan-Karshe, Sanga Local Government Area in the Southern part of…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police have arrested one of the suspected cultists involved in the killing of Divisional Police Officer (DPO), SP Bako Angbashim, in Ahoada-East of Rivers State. In a video on social media, the suspect, whose name was not mentioned, had his two hands tied behind his back with a tyre placed on him….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) today arrested a driver of a painted Volkswagen ‘T4’ commercial bus (LSR 966 YE) for stabbing a Lastma Officers after being apprehended for serious traffic obstruction around costain round-about, Lagos. Lastma Officer Olajide Olukoga ‘Bravo’ who led the enforcement team disclosed that the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Norwegian police have arrested a former commander of the Wagner mercenary group on suspicion that he tried to illegally cross the border back into Russia after seeking asylum in Norway earlier this year, the man’s lawyer said on Saturday. Andrei Medvedev, who escaped Russia in January via its Arctic border with Norway,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Three weeks after Ali Bongo Ondimba was overthrown in a coup, one of his sons and several allies of the ousted Gabon president have been charged with corruption and placed in custody, the state prosecutor said Wednesday. Bongo’s eldest son Noureddin Bongo Valentin and former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha were indicted…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Detectives attached to the Commissioner of Police Special Squad 2, headed by Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP), Joel Ugowe Igbinazaka, have arrested a wanted cultist, who allegedly led the squad that murdered and beheaded a police officer some months ago in Ijanikin area of Lagos State. The suspect, Ehis Job Philips, was…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Noah Kekere, the doctor who allegedly removed a woman’s kidney in Jos, Plateau State capital, exhibited traces of mental disorder in the police cell on Saturday evening. Kekere was arrested on Wednesday following a report lodged at the Nasarawa Gown police division on the removal of the right kidney of Mrs. Kehinde…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female student of the Gombe State University, Gombe has been arrested for allegedly murdering her one-day-old baby who she threw from the second floor of the female hostel. The body of the newborn was found in the early hours of Saturday, September 9, near Hall IV of the female hostels by…