LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Police Command have arrested a 25-year-old man, Samson Oghenebreme, in Lagos while transporting human organs from Edo State to a native doctor for use in money-making rituals. The command, in a statement by its spokesperson, CSP Benjamin Hundeyin, said, “Operatives of Odo-Noforija Division have arrested one Samson…
LAGOS MAY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said it has traced over 300,000 dollars, laundered to a suspected internet fraudster. A statement by Mr Dele Oyewale, the Spokesperson of the EFCC on Tuesday in Abuja said the suspect was among the 35 suspects arrested Sunday in Auchi area of Edo. Oyewale said…
LAGOS APRIL 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Police Command said another set of four hunters from Kano State were intercepted by operatives of the Edo Security Network with arms and ammunition when they arrived in the state. In a statement by its Public Relations Officer, CSP Moses Joel Yamu, the statement became necessary in order to…
LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Northern Elders Forum, NEF, has made three key demands from the Edo State and federal governments regarding the killing of northern travellers in Uromi, Edo. This comes as the forum warned that the region will no longer tolerate such recklessness from the people of southern Nigeria. The spokesperson for NEF, Professor…
By: Zagazola Makama LAGOS MARCH 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In a harrowing display of mob injustice, 16 innocent travelers from Northern Nigeria lost their lives in the Udune Efandion community of Uromi, Edo State, after being falsely accused of kidnapping. This unfathomable tragedy unfolded on Thursday, as an irate mob took the law into their own hands, fueled…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eighteen (18) local government chairmen and their deputies who were suspended by the Edo State House of Assembly have vowed to carry out their duties unhindered until the expiration of their tenure in September 2026. The LGA chairmen and their vice chairmen were suspended by the Assembly for alleged gross misconduct. Chairman…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)- Party Presidential Candidate in 2023 election, Mr Peter Obi has appealed to political leaders, at all levels, to concentrate on maintaining, rehabilitating, and reconstructing existing roads and other infrastructure rather than embarking on new projects that will never be completed. Obi made the appeal on the heels of his sad experience…
LAGOS OCTOBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered vehicle exploded on Thursday at the Nigerian Independent Petroleum Company (NIPCO) filling station while its cylinder was being filled. The Nigerian Tribune gathered that the vehicle, one of many in the city that had recently adopted CNG as an alternative fuel, had a locally fabricated cylinder attached…