LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Few hours ago, a woman who is allegedly mentally deranged went naked, took charge of the petrol dispenser at a fuel station in Falomo, Ikoyi and starts pouring the fuel everywhere. In the video which has been circulating online, the naked woman was pouring fuel on cars, people and even on the…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A fresh crisis is currently brewing in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after a chieftain of the party, Prince Idris Balogun, accused ‘loyalists’ of Nigeria’s Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola of taking over the structure of the party in the Alimosho federal constituency. Balogun in a letter…
LAGOS JULY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine pirates who attempted to hijack a ship in Togolese waters in May 2019 have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 12 to 20 years during a trial at a Lome court. It was the first time pirates have been tried in Togo, one of the West African countries with coastline…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police have described as fake a report that gunmen hijacked a bus filled with students of the Ken Saro-Wiwa Polytechnic, Bori, Khana Local Government Area of Rivers State. Recall that an online viral report had claimed that the gunmen behind the purported hijack had demanded N2 million ransom to free the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seven persons believed to be Nigerians have been arrested in the United Kingdom on suspicion of seizing control of an oil ship, Nave Andromeda. According to the BBC, the stowaways are believed to have boarded the Southampton-bound ship in Lagos on October 5, 2020 in search of asylum. However, as the ship approached the…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari on Monday said that it was the right of the youths to protest and make certain demands from their leaders. The President also said that the young generation should be allowed to exercise their fundamental rights, but advised that they should not allow their genuine concerns to be hijacked by hoodlums. This…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission (PSC) has accused Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammed Adamu of hijacking the on-going recruitment of constables. The allegation, which betrays the power tussle between the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and its supervising parastatal, is contained in an interview which PSC Commissioner, Austin Braimoh, granted The PUNCH. Braimoh…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command says three passengers and a driver were kidnapped after gunmen hijacked a bus along Emohua axis of the East-West Road. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, while confirming the incident, said the armed men struck at Evekwu in Emohua. Omoni added that commercial…