LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some Lagos residents have appealed to the police to return to their duty posts and ensure the safety of lives and property. The appeal was made on Tuesday on social media platforms following the continued absence of the police on Lagos roads. Well, Lagosians reminded the police that it was their job…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-SMUGGLERS are having a free ride along the Mile2/Seme Expressway, Lagos, transporting large quantities of imported rice, frozen poultry products, vegetable oil, fish and other banned imports into the country. Vanguard Maritime Report gathered that as a result of the #EndSARS protest by Nigerian youths across the nation and the subsequent civil…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pastor in Kogi State, identified as Sunday Edino and his alleged accomplices have been arrested by the Kogi State Police Command for allegedly looting medical equipment worth N1.2billion. This is as the sporadic shooting by masked hoodlums in Lokoja on Monday, 26th October, 2020 has led to the death of no…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums have begun dumping looted items into waste bins and by the road sides as security operatives commenced search for looted public and private property within the Calabar metropolis. Hoodlums had on Friday and Saturday last week broken into COVID-19 palliative and State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) warehouses, some government institutions, politicians’…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ikeja under the bridge boiled on Friday as police engaged hoodlums in heavy gun-battle. The fallout of the #EndSARS protest has continued to lead to wanton violence and looting across different parts of Lagos State. The hoodlums who came out in large number on Friday morning took over the road leading to…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 37 former members of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad have been penciled down for dismissal from service. The Police Service Commission is also expected to order the prosecution of 24 other ex-SARS operatives for various acts of professional misconduct. These were the highlights of the Report of the Presidential…
LAGOS OCTOBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Police Force on Wednesday came out with five important facts about the newly-created Special Weapons and Tactical Team (SWAT), saying no personnel of the defunct Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS) will be part of the new SWAT. In a series of tweets by the police through the Force Public Relations…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The head of Nigeria’s police dissolved its Special Anti-Robbery Squad with immediate effect on Sunday, a police statement said, prompted by days of protests across the country against alleged brutality by the controversial unit. The protests broke out in recent days after a video circulated last week alleging to show members of…
