LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Deputy Inspector General of Police, Operations, who is also in charge of Saturday’s gubernatorial election in Ekiti state, Mr. Habila Joshua, said he never ordered his men to attack members of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He also said he was not aware of any attack on the state governor, Ayo…
LAGOS JULY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Miss Adenike Khadijat Oluboyo, daughter of the immediate past Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Lasisi Olugbenga Oluboyo, was on Sunday found dead at her boyfriend’s house in Akure. Oluboyo, who was a final year student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, was found dead in her boyfriend’s house, Adeyemi Alao, popularly…
LAGOS JULY 5TH (NEWRANGERS)-Mr. Chinaka Adoezuwe was reportedly shot dead while trying to prove to his client the efficacy of a bullet repelling charm. The native doctor, 26, had been approached by one of his clients Chukwudi Ijezie to prepare a bullet repelling charm for him. A witness, John Madu, said that Chukwudi Ijezie, had…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police Command in Enugu State says it has rescued Pa Michael Obi, father of Mikel Obi, Captain of the Super Eagles, from the kidnappers’ den in a community in the state. The Command’s Spokesman, SP Ebere Amaraizu, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday evening in Enugu. Amaraizu said the…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of people were reported to have roasted to death as result of a fuel-laden tanker that exploded along the Otedola Bridge axis of Berger in Lagos with the blaze engulfing at least forty other vehicles. The tanker was heading out of Lagos towards the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway when the crash occurred, causing…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has unmasked the Policeman ‘ MCON’, Sergeant Marcel Nnabugwu who was accused in the social media by a masked woman as living above his means as Inspector Christopher Nnabugwu. A video clip of a policeman in Sergeant uniform went viral in the social media in which a…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has opposed reported moves by the Federal Government directing the Nigerian Army and Police to recruit some former members of Boko Haram terrorists who recently underwent deradicalisation programme. The President of CAN, Dr Samson Olasupo Ayokunle, said on Tuesday that if it is true, it is…
LAGOS JUNE 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Blasts have killed at least 20 people in northeast Nigeria, police said, while residents said the toll was even higher in the largest attack for weeks in a region blighted by the Islamist militant Boko Haram insurgency. In an emailed statement issued on Sunday, the police said 20 people had been killed…