LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Service Commission has directed a Commissioner of Police and former Chief Security Officer to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, CP Abdulkarim Dauda, to tender his letter of retirement from the Police Force with immediate effect for breach of due process/illegal extension of tenure. The PSC took the decision at its 13 plenary…
LAGOS JULY 29TH (NEWSRAGERS)-The Inspector General of Police, IGP Usman Alkali Baba, on Thursday called for the review of the allegations against Deputy Commissioner of Police, Abba Kyari, by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI. THEWILL writes that Kyari, who is the head of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT), was linked to popular fraudster and…
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Benin Republic court in Cotonou has reportedly ordered the return of the passport of Ropo, the wife of Yoruba Nation activist, Sunday Adeyemo, also known as Sunday Igboho, as well as other documents seized from them. Sources at the court told SaharaReporters that the court ruled that all travel documents of…
LAGOS JULY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An FCT High Court, sitting in Kubwa, Abuja on Tuesday ordered a 21- year-old student, Abraham Umuibe to sweep Mpape Government Secondary School for 90 days. Umuibe swindled a Chinese woman of N113, 000, online. Justice Kezziah Ogbonnaya said the court gave the unusual sentence because it has been enjoined to give…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kaduna State Government has ordered for the closure of 13 private secondary schools over security threat as a result of the abduction of 140 students of Bethel Baptist High school in the state. This was contained in a statement issued by the Director-General, Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance Authority, Mrs Umma K….
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has vowed to sniff criminals out of their hideouts within Lagos State as he ordered Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and tactical Commanders to embark on massive raids of criminals at their identified blacksports across the state. The Commissioner of Police made the…
LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The State Department on Saturday ordered non-essential diplomats at the U.S. Embassy in Chad to leave the African nation due to potential insurgent attacks on the capital. In addition to non-essential embassy staff, the department also ordered the families of American personnel stationed there to leave because armed groups appear to be…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senate Committee on Public petition, Ethics and Privileges has issued a warrant of arrest on the management of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Chairman of the Committee, Senator Ayo Akinyelure issued the order following the management’s failure to honour the invitation of the Senate panel to account for how the…
