LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Police authorities in Abuja have commenced investigations into allegations made on tiktok by a Lagos-based land speculator that some of their officers demanded money for the Inspector General of Police, to settle a land case he is involved in at Ibeku-Lekki area of Lagos State. The investigation followed widespread online publication by…
LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The PTML Area Command of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has banned its operatives from using their offices as homes. Customs Area Controller of the command, Compt. Ali Mahmud Ibrahim expressed displeasure over intelligence reports that some officers and non-officers of the service turned their offices into bedrooms and kitchens after closing hours….
LAGOS APRIL 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has ordered officers across the country to stop asking for Customs papers from drivers. Force Public Relations Officer (FPRO), Muyiwa Adejobi, issued the directive on Sunday via Twitter. The spokesman added that the issuance of tinted glass permits remains suspended. Adejobi said officers are only expected to…
LAGOS MARCH 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A family of five, including three school children, Thursday, escaped gunshot by the whisker as officers of Nigeria Customs Service went on the rampage early in the morning in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The school children were being conveyed to school by their mother simply identified as Mrs Obaji, when the…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Comptroller General of Immigration Service Isah Jere Idris has approved a Posting Order of Sixty-Nine Senior Officers to Zones, Commands Formations across the country. The deployment is contained in a circular vide NIS/HQ/ADM/4423/170 and dated 1st August, 2022. In the Posting Order, Eight Assistant Comptrollers General (ACG) and sixty one Comptrollers…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Wednesday, said that it has no reason to shield anyone who may be indicted in the course of the ongoing investigation of a 25kg cocaine deal involving a gang headed by DCP Abba Kyari. The agency in a statement by its Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission on Tuesday approved the promotion of two Assistant Inspectors-General of Police to the next rank of Deputy Inspectors-General of Police. The two AIG’s promoted to DIGs are AIG Zaki M. Ahmed and AIG Johnson Babatunde Kokumo. A statement by Ikechukwu Ani, head of Press and Public Relations noted…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of one of the Area Commands in Edo State and two other police officers were reportedly attacked and shot by suspected robbers in the early hours of Friday at the popular Murtala Muhammed (MM) Way in Benin City. The ACP and the two other officers…