LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has ordered movement restriction for the first part of the 2023 General Elections – the Presidential and National Assembly Elections. The polls are scheduled to be held on Saturday February 25 across all 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The Force headquarters, Wednesday night, announced that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian police on Friday said some citizens frustrated by cash shortages in the country were attacking banks and vandalising cash-dispensing machines, and warned that they would be treated as armed robbers. The Association of Senior Staff of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions (ASSBIFI) said its members would stay away from work in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In furtherance of his zeal and strategies to decimate activities of non-state actors and other criminal elements in the FCT and other parts of the country, and to analyze and de-escalate threats gathered from various intelligence at the Force’s disposal, U.S advisory inclusive, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Usman Alkali Baba…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I was driving on Third Mainland bridge and had a flat tyre just before the Yaba turning. As I pulled off the road to change the tyre, a police man approached me asking what the problem was. Before long he had called his colleagues and they were helping me change my car…
LAGOS JULY 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has dismissed one Mr. Richard Gele, the Police Inspector caught in a viral video dignifying and justifying extortion of members of the public and official corruption which trended from the 25th of July, 2022. Force Public Relation Officer (FPPRO) CSP Olumuyia Adejobi who made this disclosure of the…
LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an attempt to resolve the present insecurity problem bedeviling the country, the Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba is discussing with Nigeria Communication Commission (NCC) and putting measures in place to activate the Police short code 933 to ease communication and sharing of information. Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO)…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force, Federal Capital Territory Command, has denied raiding the head office of Peoples Gazette newspaper. Policemen on Friday allegedly raided the head office of the newspaper in Abuja and arrested one of its editors, journalists, and staff members. According to a report by Peoples Gazette, John Adenekan, an assistant…
LAGOS JULY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force ha s invited candidates who participated in the medical screening exercise of the 2021 recruitment exercise of Ten Thousand (10,000) Police Constables into the service of the Nigeria Police Force to check their recruitment status on the recruitment portal, www.policerecruitment.gov.ng. Successful candidates, thereafter, are advised to print out…