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…
LAGOS AUGUST 15TH-( NEWSRANGERS) Media Rights Agenda (MRA) today called for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr. Samuel Ogundipe, a Premium Times newspaper reporter who was arrested yesterday and is being detained by the Nigerian Police at the Force headquarters in Abuja for refusing to disclose the source of his information for a news…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The management of an online newspaper, Premium Times has raised the alarm over harassment of his workers by the Nigeria police, just as it demands immediate release of its reporter, Samuel Ogundipe who had been detained over a story. A press statement signed Dapo Olorunyomi, Publisher of Premium Times made available to…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Ondo State say a suspected kidnapper who was arrested in a botched kidnap attempt in Owo is dead following complications from a high intake of tramadol. It would be recalled that the suspect had been unconscious since his arrest over the Aug. 5 incident at a chemist in Owo….
LAGOS AUGUST 14H (NEWSRANGERS)-Two lawmakers, Senator Rafiu Adebayo and Senator Isa Misau, have sued the Attorney-General of the Federation, the police, the Department of State Services, the Senate and seven others in order to stop the attempts to remove Senate President Bukola Saraki. Senators Adebayo and Misau, who are supporters of Saraki, instituted the fresh…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Christ Chosen Church of God has disowned its suspended pastor, one Ngbeken Elvis, who was reportedly arrested over the death of a 38-year-old mother of four in the Egor Local Government Area of Edo state. It was also gathered that Elvis could face additional sanctions as he had yet to fulfil…
LAGOS AUGUST 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected car vandal, Daniel Ekwerekwu, has died while allegedly escaping from where he had gone to steal in the Maryland area of Lagos State. The Anambra State indigene was said to have hit his head on a concrete floor while attempting to scale a fence. The police alleged that Ekwerekwu sneaked…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Edo State Commissioner of Police, Mr. Johnson Kokumo how combined force of Policemen, who were on guard duty foiled armed robbery bank attack on a bank in Igarra, in Akoko Edo Local Government Area of Edo State. He disclosed that three of the armed robbers were killed during a gun duel. While…