By Emmanuel Udom LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has identified top five flashpoints where touts, who disguise as local government and local council development workers do intimidate, coarse and extort money, daily from motorists in Lagos state. Comrade Enitan Joseph chairman and Comrade Abdulhakeem Adesina, secretary, respectively of organisation said that recently, CLO…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Roads leading to Apapa Port City, Nigeria’s premier port complex and international gateway to the nation’s economy have totally been taking over by touts popularly known as ‘Area Boys’. The presence of these miscreants along the port access roads especially the Tin-Can Island Port road have caused more harms to importers of…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lawyers from the Chamber of Oluwatodimu Ige & Associates have petitioned Nigeria Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba over alleged extortion of $5,000 and N3.350m from their clients, Mr Showunmi Fatai and Mr Oyeneye Samuel Toyosi by operative of Nigeria policemen in Lagos. The lawyers in the petition have accused…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A trending video has showed two police officers, who allegedly extorted N150,000 from a motorist, accidentally recording themselves on the victim’s phone. According to the victim, who shared the video, the officers abducted him and forcefully transferred the money from him using a POS agent in Sapele, Delta State. “This happened after…
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Ogun State has arrested three of its mobile officers who reportedly extorted one Hezekiah Oluwaponmile, a student of the Lagos State University (LASU), of the sum of N153,000. The cops, attached to PMF16, were identified as Inspector Sunday John with AP/NO. 310332; Sergeant Jimoh Asimiya with F/NO. 447461 and…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Mile 2, Abule-Ado, old Ojo Road, Abule-Osun, Satellite Town and parts of FESTAC Town in Lagos State, are calling on the government to rescue them from killer gangs, who operate freely in these areas. According to them, these gangs kill, rape and extort residents and tanker drivers. They also invade…