LAGOS APRIL 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Alan Garcia mortally wounded himself with a gunshot to his head Wednesday as officers waited to arrest him in a big graft probe that has put Peru’s most prominent politicians behind bars and provoked a reckoning over corruption. Authorities broke through a door at Garcia’s mansion in a leafy, upscale…
LAGOS APRIL 16TH (NEWRANGERS)-A kidnapped victim along Benin-Ore has alleged that the frequent abduction of travelers along the the Benin-Ore expressway specially by Igbogi community is organised by a cartel made up of some security personnel, hawkers along the road and some influential people within the area. The victim was kidnapped on Friday close to…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force said it had killed nine suspected members of a notorious armed robbery gang at Akilbu forest , off Abuja-Kaduna Express Way. A statement by the Force spokesman, Frank Mba, a Deputy Commissioner of Police, on Sunday in Abuja, said this followed an exchange of gun fire between the…
LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Ogun state police command early this week, brought joy to three parents whose children were among the eight children stolen from various parts of the state by rescuing their children and arresting three suspects. A statement by the command spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi (DSP), said that a syndicate that specialized in stealing…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In what witnesses described as commando-like manner, armed bandits have abducted the acting Director of the Lagos State Fire Service, Rasaki Musibau and seven others in Epe, a riverine area of the metropolis. The abduction of the state government officials came just as residents complained of series of killings and other vices…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers suspected to be involved in the shooting of Kolade Johnson, a young man who died from a stray bullet in Lagos, have been arrested. Johnson was shot in Onipetesi area of Lagos on Sunday, when a team of policemen from the Anti-Cultism Unit visited the area. According to a statement by…
LAGOS MARCH 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A new public survey released today by Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) reports high levels of corruption in public institutions in Nigeria for the past 5 years. Of the five major public institutions surveyed, the police emerge as the most corrupt, with the power sector identified as the second most corrupt…
LAGOS MARCH 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH) Nnewi, Anambra state has handed over five (5) of its junior staff to the Nigerian Police for investigation and prosecution for allegedly defrauding the Institution of Fifteen Million (N15M) by manipulating its Automated Billing and Account Method. Four staff of consulting firm for…
