LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Edo state police command have busted a suspected ritual shrine in Benin, the state capital. A graphic video of the shrine showed mummified bodies stacked on an iron rack and others standing against the wall of the room. A statement late Wednesday night by the command’s deputy image maker, ASP…
LAGOS AUGUST 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police forensics investigators have identified bodies of two persons murdered and buried in a shallow grave in northeastern Thailand as a Nigerian man and a Vietnamese woman. A wild mushroom harvester discovered their bodies in a forest at Chok Chai district in Nakhon Ratchasima on the evening of July 28, 2022. The man…
By Chief (Barr.) Malcolm Omirhobo LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Weighing the Inspector General of Police, Usman Baba, order for the arrest and prosecution of skit and movie makers over the unauthorized use of Police uniforms and the portrayal of the police institution in bad light, I am compelled to make the following clarifications for the …
LAGOS JULY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Online Publishers Association of Nigeria (OPAN) strongly condemns today’s raid of online newspaper, Peoples Gazette’s office in Abuja and the subsequent arrest of five journalists by armed policemen. According to news reports, the policemen forcefully entered the media office and demanded to see managing editor, Samuel Ogundipe and a reporter…
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Lagos State on Saturday warned Point of Sales (POS) operators against using their trade to promote extortion at police stations and other areas. The Command’s spokesperson, Benjamin Hundeyin, gave the warning on his Twitter handle, monitored by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). Mr Hundeyin, a superintendent of police,…
LAGOS JULY 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Kuje Medium Security Prison and Kuje Maximum Security Prison in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja are under attack. However, operatives of the Department of State Services and Nigeria Police were battling the attackers as at press time. In the attack on Tuesday night, explosives, said to be bombs, were used by the…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector-General of Police Usman Baba on Monday announced that two bank officials and four members of a “notorious bank robbery gang” has been arrested in Ibadan, Oyo State. Baba said the suspects were nabbed after concluding plans to attack a new generation bank within the Ibadan metropolis in Oyo. Usman Baba…
LAGOS JULY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A mother of three and a timber merchant in Ondo town, Ondo state, Mrs Folakemi Fadoju has raised the alarm that kidnappers live like kings inside the forest along Ore/Ijebu Ode expressway. The 41-year-old mother said this while narrating her ordeal to Vanguard after she escaped from the kidnappers den. Folakemi, who…