LAGOS JANUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Barely one month to the 2023 general election, the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, has deployed two new Commissioners of Police to Lagos and Ogun states, so as to boost security during and after the poll. The two new Commissioners, Frank Mba and Idowu Owohunwa, will be serving in Ogun and…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than fourteen passengers were reported dead and forty injured when a trailer conveying passengers and cows from Illela LGA of Sokoto State heading to Lagos State hit a stationed truck parked by the shoulder of the road side at Dada village, Koko/Besse LGA of Kebbi State. The fatal accident occurred…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has directed a Commissioner of Police and former Chief Security Officer to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, CP Abdulkarim Dauda, to tender his letter of retirement from the Police Force with immediate effect for breach of due process/illegal extension of tenure. The PSC took the decision at its 13 plenary…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gov. Bello Matawalle of Zamfara, on Sunday in Gusau, expressed shock at the killing of 13 police officers by suspected bandits. The police personnel were gunned down at a mobile camp in Kurar Mota community in the Bagudu Local Government Area of the state. The governor’s reaction is contained in a statement…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner of Police, Nigeria Railway Command, Oyediran Oyeyemi, has allegedly threatened to eject three policemen from the Jebba barracks in the Ebute Meta area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Oyeyemi had on March 11, 2021, issued a notice to quit to Inspectors Jodan Matthew, Omaha Emmanuel and Odogwu Matthew…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, has been promoted to the rank of Commissioner of Police. Frank Mba, a Lawyer, is an alumnus of the University of Lagos where he studied Law. He also has a Masters Degree in Law from the University of Dundee, Scotland- United Kingdom. A product of…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. DanMallam Muhammed, has denied reports of attack on the residence of the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiomhole. The Chief Press Secretary to the former Governor, Simon Ebegbulem, had raised the alarm the unknown hoodlums attacked the Benin residence of…
LAGOS JUNE 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in Edo as youths of Okada area blocked the Benin – Lagos expressway smashing wind screens of vehicles belonging to travellers over the death of a woman allegedly killed by herdsmen. It was gathered that the incident happened at Okada junction by Ofumwengbe community in Ovia North-East local government…