LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested three suspects in connection with the killing of a legal practitioner, Chigbo Princess, allegedly linked to “one-chance” armed robbery operations in Abuja. In a statement on Sunday, the Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the arrests followed directives by the Commissioner of…
LAGOS JANUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has again suspended the enforcement of the Tinted Glass Permit policy across the country. The policy was expected to take off today, but the police halted the enforcement pending the determination of a substantive suit before the court. The NPF had announced on December 15, last year,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man, Ola Abimbola jailed for kidnapping has been on the run for nearly a month after absconding from an open prison in Sussex, UK. Abimbola, 36, who was sentenced to 21 years for conspiracy to kidnap, GBH, blackmail, and false imprisonment, was transferred early to Ford open prison in…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Thirteen suspected drug cartel members died Monday in a shootout with authorities in the troubled Mexican state of Sinaloa, officials said. Another four suspects were arrested and nine people kidnapped by the gang were freed following the clash in Guasave, a municipality in the northwestern state, Security Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten days after the death of Somtochukwu Maduagwu, news anchor and producer with Arise Television, the police authorities have announced the arrest of 12 suspects in connection with the robbery incident. Somtochukwu, popularly known as Sommie, died in the early hours of September 29 when armed robbers invaded her residence in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More than 20 people have been rescued in Kenya from a suspected human trafficking ring that lured them with job offers in Russia but intended to send them to fight in Ukraine, police said. It follows an intelligence-led raid on a residential apartment on the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi, where officers…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The publisher of Media Room Hub and former ThisDay reporter, Azuka Ogujiuba, has accused the Nigeria Police Force of harassment, assault, and unlawful detention over allegations of cyberbullying and defamation. Ogujiuba’s alleged harassment and assault add to growing concerns about the increasingly hostile treatment of journalists in Nigeria, particularly by the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police on Tuesday were investigating the death of a Black college student found hanging from a tree on the campus of Delta State University in Mississippi, stirring online rumors that evoked the state’s history of Jim Crow-era racist violence even as authorities said there was no initial evidence of a crime. The…