LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Rivers State Police Command says three passengers and a driver were kidnapped after gunmen hijacked a bus along Emohua axis of the East-West Road. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, DSP Nnamdi Omoni, while confirming the incident, said the armed men struck at Evekwu in Emohua. Omoni added that commercial…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The state of insecurity in the country has prompted the Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to begin urgent plans to install “closed-circuit television (CCTVs) and other cutting-edge technologies in major cities in the country for city surveillance”. Adamu made the disclosure recently while reviewing the security situation in the country for…
LAGOS JUNE 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ekiti State Police Command yesterday confirmed the death of a Fulani teenager, who was allegedly beheaded by a herdsman for refusing his marriage proposal. The suspected Fulani herder, whose name was yet to be made public by the police, committed the murder at Ilasa Ekiti, Ekiti East Local Government Area. The…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was a tragedy in Imo State on Monday as no fewer than ten traditional wedding guests died of fume from a generator and twenty others hospitalised. The incident happened at Umuomumu Mbieri in the Mbaitoli Local Government Area of the state. A source told our correspondent that the wedding guests from…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian security agencies have surrounded the premises of African Independent Television (AIT) after the station reopened Friday, an official said. The private broadcaster returned on air late Friday after enduring over 24 hours of shutdown by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Federal High Court in Abuja voided the government’s suspension of…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidential Panel on SARS reforms has called for the establishment of state and local government police adding that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the recommendations. This was contained in the statement by the Executive Secretary, National Human Rights Commission and Chairman Presidential Panel on SARS Reform, Anthony Ojukwu. According to the…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGRS)-The Edo Police Command on Sunday confirmed the discovery of two dead bodies inside an abandoned well in Idunowina community in Ovia North East Local Government Area of the state. The command spokesman, DSP Chidi Nwabuzor who confirmed the deaths, said investigation had commenced to unravel the causes. He said the case…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The decomposing corpse of a Lagos businessman, Oluwaseyi Ishmael, has been found in his apartment at the Magodo Phase 2 area of Lagos State. According to PUNCH Metro, Oluwaseyi, while soliciting the assistance of his family members, had allegedly threatened to kill himself if they refused to support him to raise funds…