LAGOS MARCH 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-To outsiders, Tania Gomez was the glamorous 33-year-old owner of a dog rescue centre in Stockholm, who had moved to Lanzarote for a quieter life. But to police, she was known as the “Cocaine Queen of Europe” and one of the Continent’s most wanted fugitives. Now, after four years on the run,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Cyber Cell of Delhi Police, India, has arrested a Nigerian national, Patrick Ngomere, for allegedly hacking the email account of the Family Care Pvt. Limited, a pharmaceutical company, and fraudulently syphoning off Rs 11.73 lakh. The suspect, also accused of residing in India without a valid visa, is believed to be…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRS)-Uadiale Christiana Jacob, aka Christy Evan Osagie, a wanted convicted leader of an international human trafficking network has been arrested by the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja. The socialite whose network operates across the Middle Eastern countries with an operational base in the United Arab…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested the security guard of a telco company based in Ogba, Ikeja for stealing and selling the firm’s electricity cable worth N632,000 to a scrap metal buyer for N30,000. The security guard, Adebayo Afeez, 37, was arrested in the company’s (name withheld) premises after the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Eight Nigerians, comprising seven women and a man, have been arrested by the Libyan Police after they were found with forged documents while being driven from one part of the country to another by a citizen of Libya who was equally nabbed, according to report from Migrant Rescue Watch today. The Migrant…
LAGOS JULT 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Spain-based ‘businessman,’ 50-year-old Francis Akajiobi, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the departure hall of terminal 2 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. Parcels of cocaine weighing 1.20 kilogramme were discovered in Akajiobi’s pair of sandals while attempting to board his Royal…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nemesis has caught up with a suspected agent of a ritualist as he was set ablaze by a mob in Lapai, headquarters of Lapai Local Government area of Niger state. The incident occurred shortly before the Jumma’t prayer last Friday. The suspect identified as Dule Sakon Kano who was in custody of…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A pigeon was detained last month in a Canadian jail after it was discovered to be carrying a backpack that contained crystal meth, the Globe and Mail reported over the weekend. The bird was found and later captured at the Pacific Institution correctional facility near Vancouver after officers noticed the high-flying fowl…