LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba activist, Sunday Igboho has broken his silence over the order given by the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, for his arrest. Igboho caused tension in the country when he ordered the Fulani herdsmen in Igangan, Ibarapa North Local Government of Oyo State to leave the area within seven days. At…
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A family of seven have been set on fire by a single mother. The suspect identified as Imole Sesan, allegedly executed the evil act in the Idimu area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the victims, Remi Joseph, her children and grandchildren were sleeping in a shop when Sesan locked the…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A notorious kidnapper who has been on the police wanted list for the past months has been arrested by men of the Edo state police command. The suspect identified as Dauda Yusuf and his gang members was said to have been terrorising Auchi, Igarra, Okpilla, Fugar, Agenebode and environs, all in Edo…
LAGOS JANUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Damaturu, Yobe State, have arrested four persons over the death of an 18-year old female at a government guest lodge in Damaturu. The incident occurred on Thursday. The police have arrested the suspects who are now at the Police B Division in Damaturu. Police sources said the prime suspect…
LAGOS JANUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Akwa Ibom State are preparing to arraign some officials of the Deeper Life High School over the alleged sexual abuse of an 11-year-old student of the school in Uyo. Some officials of the school were said to have been detained after attending a meeting at the police headquarters, Uyo,…
LAGOS DECEMBR 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium on Saturday afternoon at Ugonoba, before Ugoneki, after Benin Bypass, Edo State, when about 10 armed robbers blocked the Expressway, shot two passengers and robbed other motorists and their passengers. The heavily armed gunmen had hijacked a truck which they used to barricade the road and started robbing travellers…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Bayelsa State Police Command have intercepted a local passenger boat and recovered 200 cartridges of live ammunition and a bag containing a large quantity of a substance suspected to be Indian hemp. The state Commissioner of Police, Mr Mike Okoli, said three suspects were also arrested in connection with…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Katsina State Police Command on Saturday said over 200 students of Government Science Secondary School, Kankara, were rescued from gunmen who attacked the school on Friday night. The command, however, did not specify the number of students abducted by the bandits. A statement by the spokesman for the command, SP Gambo…