LAGOS SEPTEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The police have dismissed an operative of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS), Inspector Charles Omotosho, over an allegation of extortion. The Force Public Complaint Rapid Response Unit (PCRRU) revealed this in a series of tweets on Friday, three months after Omotosho was arrested for the offence. His dismissal was approved by…
LAGOS AUGUST 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-one alleged prostitutes, 99 per cent of whom are Nigerians, have been arrested by the Weija District Police Command in Ghana. They were arrested around a place called Choice, where several drinking joints operate at night, according to Chief Inspector Diana Eninful, who led the operation. She said the police received several…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 42-year-old self-professed prophet, Olusola Akindele of Lion of Judah Church of Christ, Robiyan community in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State, has been arrested for allegedly beheading his mistress for money rituals. The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Iliyasu, who led his men to the house of the cleric located in…
LAGOS AUGUST 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 42 year-old man, ldowu Benson has been nabbed by men of the Nigeria Police for allegedly choping-off two of his wife’s fingers for the purposes of money ritual. The incident occurred in Oba-Ile, Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State. Idowu, who was said to have pretended as an assassin,…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police command in Enugu State has commenced investigation into an incident that led to a 24-year-old man committing suicide after an overdose of marijuana. The spokesman of the command, SP. Ebere Amaraizu, said this in a statement yesterday in Enugu. He said the incident happened on Aug. 22 at Ameke Village…
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…