LAGOS MARCH 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Police Command last night confirmed the arrest of 14 suspects in connection with the Thursday attack on a travelling party of hunters at Udune Efandion,an Uromi community in the Esan North Local Government of the state. Sixteen of the hunters said to be from the North on a hunting…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman who was found beaten to death in her flat has been named as a top executive at the major financial institution Citibank. Marianne Kilonzi, 43, who was vice president of trade and working capital sales, was found dead in her home in Woolwich, south-east London, on Friday evening. Detectives believe…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four hooded heavily armed men suspected to be kidnappers have abducted the wife of retired Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Hakeem Odumosu, from her residence in the Arepo area of Ogun State. Eyewitnesses reported that the kidnappers, executing a well-coordinated attack, intercepted the wife of the Ex Police AIG as she…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Federal Operations Unit (FOU) Zone A of the Nigeria Customs Service have commenced manhunt for a luxury bus driver and his conductor who fled and left behind five new automatic rifles and several thousands of cartridges in the Oshodi area of Lagos. Customs Officers had trailed the yet-to-be identified…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three people have been killed and another four seriously injured in a knife attack in the western German city of Solingen, police say. The attack happened during a festival in the city centre on Friday evening. The attacker is reported to be still at large. German media outlet Bild says a man…
LAGOS JUNE 16TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-Two days after the abduction of the Managing Director of Fouani Company along with three Lebanese in Lagos, their whereabouts remain unknown. Though there are indications that security operatives have intensified rescue efforts, there has been no information on their whereabouts. It was gathered that armed men abducted the Managing Director of…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian soldiers were on Monday hunting for armed kidnappers who seized nearly 300 school pupils in Kaduna state last week, a security source said, as distraught parents sought answers on when they would be reunited with their children. The source said the army’s Kaduna-based One Division was leading the operation and “will…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGGERS)-In a move to reduce the pressure on the naira, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raised a 7,000-man special task force across its 14 zonal commands to clamp down on dollar racketeers. The spokesperson for the anti-graft agency, Dele Oyewale, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said the commission…