LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Ogun State Police Command have recovered an AK-47 rifle loaded with 20 rounds of 5.6mm ammunition, N2 million and two mobile phones after killing a suspected kidnapping kingpin. The suspect was neutralised during an intelligence-led operation at a criminal hideout located within the Orile…
LAGOS MAY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police Force has busted an armed robbery, kidnapping and criminal conspiracy syndicate of serving policemen, numbering eight Inspectors, terrorising residents of Port Harcourt and other parts of Rivers State. The Police said of the eight Inspectors, five of them attached to the Rivers State Police Command have been dismissed…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Special Tactical Squad (STS) of the Nigeria Police Force has recorded a major breakthrough in its sustained crackdown on the vandalisation of critical national infrastructure, with the arrest of two notorious suspects and the recovery of railway materials valued at over ₦400,000,000. Acting on the directive of the Inspector-General of…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A rising rap artist has died at the age of 25 after allegedly committing suicide in a bizarre series of events. Rapper Lil Poppa, born Janarious Mykel Wheeler, died Thursday after crashing his car on Interstate 85 south of Hapeville, Ga., and subsequently shooting himself in front of his manager in a…
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…