LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The effective monitoring of the general election commencing on February 25, 2023, is being threatened by the imminent retirement of over 300 senior police officers. The president and national assembly elections are slated for February 25, while governorship and state assembly elections will hold on March 11, 2023. The Independent National Electoral…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Kwara State Police Command has arrested a suspected internet fraudster, Awoleye Oluwatofunmi, who allegedly defrauded an American national, Vonapolouis Moss, of $ 1000. The state Commissioner of Police, Paul Odama, disclosed this while parading the suspect before reporters at the police headquarters, Ilorin, on Friday. He said the suspect presented himself…
LAGOS JANUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 30 kidnap victims held hostage in the Toto Local Government Area of Nasarawa State have been rescued following a joint operation by officers of the state Police Command in collaboration with Miyetti Allah Vigilante Group in the area. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Ramhan Nansel, made the disclosure…
LAGOS DECEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police are on the trail of one Yahaya who allegedly beat his brother, simply identified as Samson, to death for allegedly stealing a school’s property in Ijede area of Lagos State. Lagos Police Command spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident. According to him, the Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-House of Representatives, Wednesday, demanded a total ban of police officers from consuming alcohol and other hard substances capable of inhibiting their sense of reasoning and capability to carry out their duties judiciously. The resolution came on the heels of the death of Mrs Bolanle Raheem who was recently shot dead by…
LAGOS DECEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Oyo State Police Command, on Thursday, paraded 13 suspects, among whom were three killers of a United States-based Ogbomoso-born hotelier, Gbenga Owolabi, and a final year student of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Rachael Opadele, in Ibadan. The state Commissioner of Police, Adebowale Williams, who paraded the suspects at…
LAGOS DECEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives attached to Obi Division, Nasarawa state have arrested one Isa Nana Okpoku ‘M’ 75yrs of Daddare Development Area, Obi LGA, Nasarawa State for allegedly raping his four-years-old Niece. His arrest was based on consequent upon a report that was lodged at the Divisional Police Headquarters on Saturday, 10/12/2022 at about…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Imo State was attacked on Thursday. Three construction workers were abducted but later set free by the attackers. INEC REC in Imo state , Professor Sylvia Uchenna Agu who made the pronouncement in a statement sighted by NewsRangers state that their office in Orlu Local Government…
