LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Dino Melaye has been rushed to a police clinic in Garki Area 1 of Abuja, after he was arrested and taken to SARS Headquarters. A police officer who was part of the team that arrested the lawmaker in his Abuja residence on Friday confirmed the case’s latest development. The officer said…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Dino Melaye, lawmaker representing Kogi west senatorial district, has surrendered to the police after over a week siege at his Abuja residence. The police had vowed not to leave Melaye’s residence without arresting him. He was accused of culpable homicide, an allegation he denied. Melaye had said he would visit the…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Benin Monarch, Oba Ewuare II, has expressed concern over the growing cases of money rituals among the youths. He warned that the behaviour was abominable and alien to Benin customs and tradition. The Oba express his concern on Sunday in Benin, during a thanksgiving service at the Holy Aruosa Cathedral, to…
LAGOS JANUARY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ondo State Police Command on Monday paraded two suspected kidnappers including a notorious member of Boko Haram, Mohammed Jaihe, who has been on the wanted list of the security operatives in the country. Jaihe was arrested along with one of his leiutenant, Jimoh Ahmed, in Ago Ajayi, near Oba Akoko in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen invaded the residence of Senator Dino Melaye in high-brow Maitama area of Abuja on Friday afternoon because of his involvement in a criminal case, police spokesman Jimoh Moshood has said. “Senator Dino Melaye is wanted by the police for attempted culpable homicide, the shooting and wounding of a policeman on duty,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Imohimi Edgal, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, says it will take legal action against those behind a photoshopped image of a policeman. Edgal has also called on the general public to disregard the picture of a policeman bearing a banner on which was inscribed: ‘IS NOT OUR DUTY TO FIGHT BOKO…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28T (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of police personnel have invaded the residence of the controversial lawmaker representing Kogi West in the National Assembly, Senator Dino Melaye. The invasion of the lawmaker’s Abuja residence located at 11 Sangha street, off Mississippi, Maitama, took place some minutes after Midday today. Presently, the street where his house is located…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have dismissed 121 of at least 167 police officers who absconded from a counterterrorism training facility to avoid deployment against Boko Haram insurgents last week, PREMIUM TIMES can report. The 121 officers of the police rank-and-file were accused of committing mutiny and desertion, prompting Inspector-General Ibrahim Idris to order their…