LAGOS APRIL 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A couple believed to be kidnappers, escaped being lynched by a mob in Port harcourt, Rivers State after they were apprehended with a stolen baby hidden inside the wife’s bag recently. The couple were apprehended during a stop and search operation by police officers in the state. They are currently in police…
LAGOS APRIL 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Police Command has arrested four suspected Boko Haram members in the state. The suspects, who are also said to be members of the robbery and kidnapping gangs terrorising Kogi and Edo states, were planning coordinated attacks against police formations in Edo State. This was disclosed yesterday in Benin, the capital…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH NEWSRANGERS)-A single mother, identified as Aina Bello has reportedly killed her own four year old daughter, Sadie by feeding her with rat poison because she had health challenges. She was subsequently arrested by detectives in the state police command. Police source hinted Vanguard that the ugly incident happened at Iyase Quarter, Arigidi…
LAGOS APRIL 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 52-year-old Canadian, Kyliuk Morris, on Tuesday said policemen in Ogun State assisted him to deliver the N2.5m ransom paid to his kidnappers to regain his freedom. Morris, in a chat with PUNCH Metro in Abeokuta, said his ordeal started when he was abducted by the hoodlums at Fidiwo, in the Obafemi-Owode…
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…
