LAGOS JUNE 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has been asked to answer for about N250 million unapproved contracts as well as unremitted revenue at the Nigeria Police Academy, Wudil, Kano State, in 2018 when he was in charge of the Nigeria Police Force. Idris served as the Inspector General between June 2016…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security personnel attached to the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano have intercepted bags filled up with different foreign currencies brought in on a foreign airline. The incident, which occurred Thursday according to some insider’s at the airport, followed he arrival of an Ethiopian Airlines flight at about 2pm. The source, who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old woman, Hauwa Habibu, who hacked her two children to death in Kano has pleaded not guilty before a magistrate court. Recall that Hauwa, a health worker, killed her two children, Irfan Ibrahim, 6 and Zuhura Ibrahim, 3, and injured a niece, Aisha Sadiq, 10, at Diso Quarters in Gwale Local…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A teenager was sentenced to 10 years in jail because he cursed while speaking about Allah Piotr Cywiński, a professional historian and director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, is willing to take the place of a teenager who was sentenced to 10 years in jail by a Sharia court in the northern…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Members of Kano State Assembly on Wednesday unanimously adopted castration as punishment for rape in the state. The adoption initiated a process to further amend the State’s Penal Code amendment (No.12), Law of 2014. Nuraddeen Alhassan (APC-Rano) had sought a review of the law as he stated that the present 14-year jail…
LAGOS JUNE 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police on Wednesday said they had arrested three female suspects over failed alleged attempt to move 818 rounds of live ammunition from Kano State to Bayelsa State. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja. Mba said one of…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has revealed that the state’s Public Complaints and Ant-Corruption Commission will continue with probe proceedings against former Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II. The governor made this known yesterday during a media interactive session held at Africa House, Government House, Kano. The governor was responding…
LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Since his re-arrest in August 2019, very little has been heard from Taraba State kidnap kingpin, Bala Hamisu, popularly known as Wadume. In a viral video after he was picked-up in Kano State, Wadume said he was released by soldiers attached to Battalion 93, Takum, Taraba State, The soldiers allegedly killed three…