LAGOS SEPTEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ebonyi State Police Command has arrested a 20-year-old mother and her lover, who sold their baby to a maternity home owner for N500,000. PUNCH Metro reports that the 20-year-old mother, Ola Chima, hails from Amangwu Edda community, in the Afikpo North Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. Her lover, Jonah Ogbuagu,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives attached to the IGP Special Task Force on Petroleum and Illegal Bunkering (IGP-STFPIB) in the late hours of August 7, 2022, successfully busted an illegal petroleum refining operation in Edo State. This follows the interception of intelligence on activities of an alleged illicit petroleum products refining syndicate operating adjacent to…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Oyo State have announced that they have located and contacted the family members of the man whose skeleton was found in his house recently. A statement by the police in Oyo State said family members of the deceased confirmed that the deceased’s name was Aderemi John Abiola and that…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Both the Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, and the Nasarawa State Police Command have reacted to a claim by a man who disclosed that he saw policemen selling Indian hemp at a checkpoint, saying they are investigating the matter. The man, whose name is Uyi Samuel with…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday, gave the state Commissioner of Police, Abutu Yaro seven days ultimatum to unravel the circumstances surrounding the 20 embalmed bodies found in an uncompleted building in Ekenwan road axis of Benin City. The Special Adviser to the governor on Media Projects, Crusoe Osagie, gave the ultimatum…
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 …