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…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in the early hours of Wednesday abducted the Member Representing Nguroje State Constituency in the Taraba State House of Assembly, Bashir Mohammed. An aide to the lawmaker said that Mohammed was kidnapped around 1am in his house in Jalingo, the state capital. According to the aide who…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Importers, clearing agents and truck owners are worried over the worsening gridlock on the port access road at the Tin Can Island Port Complex (TCIPC) in Lagos. They accused officials of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) security department, police and the Presidential Task Team on Apapa gridlock, who were deployed to manage…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force has filed a suit at the Federal High Court in Abuja praying for an order stopping the various states’ judicial panels of enquiry probing allegations of rights abuses and other acts of brutality of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and other police tactical units. The plaintiff in the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nasarawa State Chapter Chairman of the All progressive Congress (APC), Phillip Tetari Shekwo has been kidnapped The State Commissioner of Police, Bola Longe, who confirmed the incident, said Shekwo was abducted from his Lafia residence around 11pm on Saturday, November 21, 2020. According to the Nasarawa state police command; “unidentified gunmen…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Justice Ayo Salami panel has recommended the sack of Ibrahim Magu, a commissioner of police, as the acting chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), TheCable can report. The panel, which submitted its report to President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday, also asked the president to appoint a new EFCC…