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…
LAGOS JULY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun State Police Command has arrested a young man for allegedly using a girlfriend for money making rituals. The young girl after being used for rituals, started barking like a dog . Her behaviour attracted the Police who took her to the Station, but she became wild while she was also…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Bauchi state has arrested a 32-year-old man identified as Isaac Ezekiel, of Rafin Zurfi Yelwa Bauchi Metropolitan, for allegedly plucking the eyes of a 16-year-old boy. LIB had earlier shared the story of how the victim identified as Uzairu Salisu, was employed to work on a farm and while carrying out…
LAGOS JUNE 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor and his son were on Monday afternoon arrested by the police in Kubwa in the FCT over the mutilated female corpse dumped in the area. City & Crime had reported how the corpse, which was cut into nine parts, alongside a dead goat and a dead dog, was discovered on…
LAGOS JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has charged three suspects to court for allegedly beating a prostitute, Hannah Saliu, to death and setting her corpse ablaze for keeping the Holy Quran in her room. PUNCH Metro gathered that one of the suspects patronised Saliu and after having sex with her, he reportedly paid…