LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Nigeria vice-president, Atiku Abubakar, has praised the decision of the Police Force, to withdraw its officers from guarding private individuals and organisations in the country. The Inspector-General of Police, Idris Ibrahim, on Monday announced the withdrawal of the officers said to number about 150,000. Atiku, in a statement signed by his…
LAGOS MARCH 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ibrahim Idris has decorated Commissioner of Police (CP) Danjuma Ibrahim with his new rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG), after being acquitted over alleged killing of five traders and a woman in 2005 at Apo, Abuja. He was suspended from duty and charged on…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nasarawa State Police Command has announced plans to reintroduce the use of horses for patrols in parts of the state. The Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Bello made the disclosure on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit to the traditional ruler of Keana, the Osana, Abdullahi Agbo III. The commissioner, who…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alleged kidnap kingpin, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, a.k.a Evans, on Tuesday filed a fresh suit at a Federal High Court in Lagos, seeking N1 billion damages against the police over alleged unlawful sealing of his property in Lagos. The suit, filed by his lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje, has as the Inspector General of Police, Nigeria…
LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police say a suicide bomber riding a bicycle with explosive devices strapped to his body killed three people when he detonated himself in a crowded suburb of Nigeria’s northeast city of Maiduguri. Fox News Report. Borno State police spokesman Joseph Kwaji said Tuesday that at least 17 others were injured by the…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension in Ezimuko Nsukwu village, Abatete, in Idemili North Council Area, of Anambra state, South-East, Nigeria, as a 27 year old man, identified as Ifeanyi Oguejiofor, on Saturday reportedly stabbed his father, Osita Oguejiofor to death , with a kitchen knife. He equally stabbed his mother who survived the attack,…
LAGOS MARCH 2ND(NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has decried the practice by officers of the Nigeria Police Force who still request money for bail from innocent Nigerians, despite the measures put in place to improve the bail process. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Mr. Boss Mustapha, disclosed this Thursday at a roundtable to validate…
LAGOS MARCH 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The spokesman of Adamawa State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Sam Zadock, has been killed by gunmen. According to the State Secretary of the PDP, Alhaji Abdullahi Prambe, who spoke in Yola on Wednesday, Zadock was killed in the latest sectarian violence in the state. “We were expecting him…
