LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Dozens of armed policemen in four patrol vans have taken over the entry and exit points on Blantyre Street where the All Progressives Congress National Secretariat is located in Abuja. It was gathered on Wednesday that the policemen who were complimented by officers of the Department of State Service, are at the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-More facts have emerged on the October 29 raid on Justice Mary Odili’s Maitama residence as the police on Thursday paraded 14 suspects involved in the incident in Abuja. The police found out that the team who stormed the apartment were not security operatives. The men were said to have been led…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Minister of Police Affairs, Mohammed Dingyadi, has said that a new salary structure for officers and men of the Nigeria Police Force will be put in place soon. Dingyadi, who disclosed this, on Tuesday, when he appeared before the National Assembly, joint committee on Police Affairs, for the defence of the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nurses in Eswatini are refusing to treat police officers as they accuse them of shooting colleagues during a pro-democracy rally on Wednesday. Protests in Africa’s last absolute monarchy, formerly known as Swaziland, have swept the country since June. Some internet services, such as Facebook, were temporarily shut down this week in response…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A female passenger parading through a Denver International Airport concourse last month without any clothing drew attention from fellow passengers and airport police. The woman, who had no luggage, appeared to be carrying some kind of a thermos, bottle or drink holder in her right hand. Beyond that, she was completely naked….
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Heavily armed gunmen raided a jail in south-central Nigeria late on Sunday, blowing up the perimeter fence and freeing 266 inmates – almost everyone in the prison, authorities said. A soldier and a police officer were killed in the attack and two guards were missing, the interior ministry said. It was the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Imo State Police Command has arrested a 47-year-old woman, Evangelist Ugochi Orisakwe and four others, for allegedly using a church premises as a baby factory. The suspect was arrested by the operatives of the command, alongside her gang members namely, Chidi Orisakwe, 34, Pauline Nwagbunwanne, 42, Elizabeth Uzoma, 61, Chibueze Joy,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Adamawa have confirmed the killing of a kidnapper by vigilantes, while trying to collect ransom from the family of an abductee. Police spokesman, DSP Sulaiman Nguroje, who confirmed the development said the incident occurred on 26 August in Song Local Government Area of the state. ” The State command…