LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has frowned on the persistent extortion of truck drivers through multiple illegal roadblocks by uniformed security operatives from government security agencies, unions and associations along the port corridors, hindering the ease of doing business. The authority said investigations revealed that the combined team of the police, Navy,…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A house girl has been caught and later arrested in Lagos after it was discovered that she poisoned family soup with A Chemical for bleaching and cleaning dirt. The said house help who perpetrated the evil act first denied, but late confessed later after being asked by her boss to eat out…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Federal High Court in Abuja has rejected an ex-parte application for an order restraining the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) from arresting and extraditing suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, in a ruling on Thursday, said he was not…
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Central Bank of Nigeria has warned that abusers of naira notes will be prosecuted by the financial regulator in collaboration with other regulatory bodies such as the Nigeria Police Force, Federal Inland Revenue Service, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit. The warning, according to the…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The case in appeal number CA/L/1105/2018 between Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike( a.k.a Evans) v. The Inspector General of Police & 4 Ors was dismissed yesterday in favour of the Police. The Appellant Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike (a.k.a. Evans), filed an application for the enforcement of his Fundamental Right for the release of his trucks from the…
No fewer than 13 people, including seven wedding guests, a pastor and his wife were abducted in two kidnapping incidents that occurred between Kwara-Ekiti axis on Saturday evening. Police sources said that seven guests who were returning to Ilorin from a wedding in Ekiti State in a Sienna bus were accosted by kidnappers at a…
LAGOS AUGUST 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year-old man, Martin Odanwu has allegedly beaten his 11-year-old stepson, identified as Edeh Destiny. Odanwu was said to have beaten the boy to death for being outside their home at an odd hour. The incident occurred at Amaofia Ngbo, Ohaukwu Local Government Area of the state. Meanwhile, the Police in Ebonyi…
LAGOS AUGUST 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Mr Egbe’s shocking discovery highlighted both the lack of corpses available in Nigeria for medical students and what can happen to victims of police violence. Between the 16th and 19th Centuries, different laws in the UK granted the bodies of executed criminals to medical schools – a punishment that also advanced the…