LAGOS APRIL 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Presently, Nigeria is engrossed with insecurity which involves kidnappings, armed robbery, killing of innocent souls and banditry attack. It has become imminent that Nigerians cannot travel freely across the country without fear of being abducted for ransom or attack by armed gunmen. Farmers can no longer go to farms for fear of…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The legal battle between Femi Otedola’s First Bank and Nduka Obaigbena’s General Hydrocarbons Limited has intensified. In the latest development, the Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has granted an order to arrest and detain the crude oil cargo on board the Floating Production Storage and Offloading (FPSO) Vessel Tamara Tokoni. Personnel of…
LAGOS APRIL 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police has called for an in-depth investigations into the remote circumstances surrounding the demise of a Police Inspector, Inspector Atobaloye Taiye, who was on Quick Intervention special duty from Oke-Onigbin Divisional Headquarters, Kwara State, to the Zone 8 Command Headquarters, Lokoja, which covers Kogi and Kwara States. Statement…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Igbos living in a riverine area of Lagos were allegedly instructed not to vote in the elections for Lagos State, and the source who gave them this instruction claimed to have gotten the order from above, according to Vanguard Newspaper. Igbo traditional ruler Eze Chinedu Mozie was denied voting rights on…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Enugu State, yesterday, said it is not aware of reports making the rounds that gunmen have issued a 10-day sit-at-home notice in the entire Igbo-Eze North Council of the state. State Police Public Relations Officer, Daniel Ndukwe, told The Guardian that it would verify the report, stressing that there…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Random search of phones and laptops of persons by policemen in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, has continued despite the order by the state Police Commissioner, Tuesday Assayomo, banning the action. In the latest incident, which occurred on Friday, one Adeyemi was stopped by a police patrol team in a pickup vehicle at…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Islamic police force in Kano, a Muslim-majority state in Nigeria, has raised eyebrows after it ordered shops to only use headless mannequins to advertise clothing. “Islam frowns on idolatry,” Haruna Ibn-Sina, the commander of the Sharia police known as the hisbah, told the BBC. “With the head on it looks like…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, on Thursday, flayed the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for asking the Attorney-General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami, to begin the process of recovering land from persons who have converted cattle grazing routes for their personal use. National Coordinator of HURIWA,…