LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Family members of a missing four-year-old girl, Elo Ogidi, were overjoyed on Friday after she was found in an orphanage in Benin, Edo State. Elo was reportedly stolen from the Christ Embassy in Oregun, Ikeja, Lagos State, during a church service she attended in company with her parents and their housemaid on…
LAGOS AUGUS 23RD (NESRANGERS)-Attempts by unknown gunmen to attack the Ukana, Essien Udim Local Government Area residence of the Senator representing Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial District, Senator Godswill Akpabio yesterday night was repelled by policemen attached to the former Senate Minority Leader. Eye witness account said the Senator was holding political meetings on Tuesday…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)- The 14-year-old secondary school student, who was suspected to have killed her septuagenarian boss in Benin, Edo State, by smashing her head with a stone, on Friday, said an unseen hand pushed her to killing the woman she had lived with since March, 2018, as a housemaid. Anna Amos, a Gbagi…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Ogun State Police Command has arrested one Kelvin Micheal, 28, over the death of a 40-year-old woman, Monsurat Idowu after a bout of sex. The Command’s spokesman, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi disclosed this on Thursday in Abeokuta. According to him, “the arrest of the suspect was as a result of…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 100-Level Banking and Finance student of the Kogi State University (KSU), Ayingba Yusuf Jimoh, has allegedly killed his 300-Level Philosophy counterpart and hostel mate, Sheriff Ali Umar, over a girlfriend. The victim was stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle during a fight. It all started with an argument in…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Feeding of policemen during the 2019 polls will gulp N6bn. This is contained in the budget for the polls presented to the House of Representatives by the Independent National Electoral Commission. Lawmakers have raised eyebrows over the figure and are asking the INEC chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, to defend it. The budget…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has demanded the immediate release of PREMIUM TIMES Security Reporter, Samuel Ogundipe, detained by the Nigeria Police Force for carrying out his constitutional duty. A statement signed by the Guild’s Publicity Secretary, Olumide Iyanda, on Wednesday also condemned the arrest by the Police Special Anti-Robbery…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-he Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, has called for the immediate release of Premium Times reporter, Samuel Ogundipe. Ogundipe was arrested on Tuesday by the police over a story he wrote based on the letter written by the Inspector General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on the Director…