LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy was averted on Saturday at Aba Central Police Station, Aba, Abia State, when an Assistant Superintendent of Police, ran amok and started firing sporadically and assaulting wives of other policemen in the area. Vanguard gathered that the incident began at about 7 pm when the policeman, identified as Henry, started assaulting…
LAGOS JULY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Bandits abducted at least 60 people and killed one person in a raid of five villages in Shinkafi LGA of Zamfara on Friday night. The attackers rode on over 70 motorbikes into the villages and fired sporadically into the air, a police official and several residents said on Saturday. They killed a…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-On January 12, at the BridgeStone Hospital, Rukpoku, Obio-Akpor Local Government Area, heavily pregnant Joyce was delivered of sextuplets, four boys and two girls. The story has been told of a Nigerian police officers, Mr. Bright Akhimien, who welcomed sextuplets with his wife after seven years. According to Vanguard, it has been…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some unidentified gunmen on Friday shot dead a police officer in Ekiti State and abducted an expatriate. Another expatriate is also said to have sustained a gunshot wound. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, Sunday Abutu confirmed that the incident took place earlier this evening along an inter-town road under…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP Popoola Kayode, leader of Taskforce team operating around Lekki Ajah area of Lagos State and his team members have been arrested for collecting N100,000 bribe. The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit (Taskforce), Head, Public Affairs Unit, Adebayo Taofiq said this in a statement on…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There is tension in Mabushi community in Abuja as a police officer on Saturday allegedly shot dead a colleague and also killed himself. It was learnt that the trigger-happy officer, who was attached to one of the private residences in the area, was exchanging friendly banters with the dead colleague, who was…
LAGOS JUNE 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Capital Territory Emergency Management Agency on Sunday advised Abuja residents to always seek approval from the Parks and Recreation Department before cutting any tree. The Director-General of FEMA, Alhaji Idriss Abbas, gave the advice in a statement in reaction to the death of a Chief Superintendent of Police, Lasaka Habila,…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A police officer attached to a bank in Oye-Ekiti has been shot dead in a robbery attack on Thursday. A girl, believed to be about five years old, was also killed by the gunmen while on her way back from school, Premium Times reports. The gunmen made away with money from the…
