LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ekiti State Amotekun Corps has arrested a man identified as Celestine with counterfeit new N1,000 notes amounting to about N250,000. The suspect claimed to be a Lagos-based businessman from Anambra State and said he was heading from Lagos to Isanlu in Kogi State to buy kolanut and bitter kola when he…
LAGOS February 3rd (newsrangers)-The police operatives in Ogun have arrested a man for allegedly setting his wife ablaze in the Ibogun area of the state. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Friday, identified the suspect as Hassan Azeez. Azeez’s arrest followed a complaint lodged at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police are on the trail of one Yahaya who allegedly beat his brother, simply identified as Samson, to death for allegedly stealing a school’s property in Ijede area of Lagos State. Lagos Police Command spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. According to him, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man presumed to be in his 50s has been feared dead while queuing to buy petrol at a filling station in Oluyole Estate. The man, whose identity is unknown, suspected to be an Alhaji was sitting on his steering with one leg on the pedal and the other on the ground…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of St. Monica in the city of Chipata were surprised to find a 39-year-old man got stuck whilst having sexual encounter with a young girl in an uncompleted building. The father-of-two, identified as Ivan Musukwa, was caught with a grade six student returning from school. An eyewitness named Cephas claims he…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man identified as Obiefuna Tochukwu Kenneth has reportedly died after he slumped at an airport. Details of the incident including name of the airport and country, are still sketchy at the time of filing this report. However, one Chimuanya Desmond who confirmed the incident in a Facebook post on Saturday,…
Operatives of Lagos State Police Command have arrested 51-year-old man, Austin Kanu, over the abduction of four teenagers in Surulere area of the State. The command’s spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed in a statement on Tuesday, that the teenagers have been rescued. Hundeyin said that the teenagers who are all boys, had been reunited with…
LAGOS OCTOBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Lagos State have begun investigation into the death of a 36-year-old man allegedly mauled by two German dogs guarding a church in Lagos. The Police Public Relations Officers (PPRO) of Lagos Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident in Lagos on Sunday. Hundeyin said that the younger brother of…