LAGOS MARCH 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has said the man caught in a viral video harassing a lady inside a commercial vehicle claiming to be a police officer is not a policeman. The command’s spokesperson, Muyiwa Adejobi, in a statement on Wednesday debunked the man’s claim, disclosing that the man had been identified…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pursuant to its commitment to further reduce crime and criminality in the State, the Lagos Police Command, between Thursday night and early hours of Friday 12th February 2021, arrested eight suspected traffic robbers in Ketu Area of Lagos State. Five of the suspects were arrested on Thursday 11th February, 2021, at about…
LAGOS JANUARY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Lagos State have arrested 71 people for allegedly violating the COVID-19 rules in the state. The violators, according to the police were arrested during raids at different night clubs in Lekki and Surulere areas of the state. The image maker in charge of the state police command, Muyiwa Adejobi,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command is currently on the trail of some members of the Oodua Peoples Congress who beat a man to death in FESTAC Town after the deceased broke into a hotel room. SaharaReporters learnt that the man was killed on the suspicion that he was a ritualist after he…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Afrobeat star, Seun Kuti, who went to the Lagos Police Command on Tuesday morning over the security siege to his Ikeja residence, was reportedly arrested and detained. Sources close to The Movement of the People (MOP), a political platform he had been floating with some activists and youth organisations, that Seun Kuti…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)- Nine suspects have been arrested in relation to the fire that razed the Ajeromi- Ifelodun Local Government Secretariat , Ajegunle-Apapa, Lagos during the chaos that erupted following the End SARS protest in Lagos. The Lagos State Police Command, on Monday, Dec 7, paraded the suspects accused of setting the Secretariat on fire on…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An 18-year-old, Ujunwa Offiah, has allegedly conspired with her boyfriend, Ifesinachi Blessed, to stage her own kidnapping. However, luck ran out on them when operatives of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Lagos State Police Command stumbled on their plan and moved in swiftly to foil it. Offiah, according to available information,…
LAGOS AUGUST 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Apapa Area Command of Lagos State have intercepted a 40-foot container laden with drugs suspected to be Tramadol and codeine. The container was intercepted on water and taken to a bonded terminal in Apapa. A team of officers from Customs and the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) joined…