LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian police said they have arrested one of their officers who was caught on camera collecting bribe from a motorist. The officer has been identified as Onuh Makedomu, a non-commissioned officer, with Force No.431625, according to a statement issued on Sunday by the Force Headquarters, Abuja. The statement, signed by the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A policeman who was controlling the surging crowd at Lagos Island inferno was reported to have perished in the fire. The front section of the six-storey building gutted by fire on Tuesday in Lagos Island has collapsed, killing a policeman at the scene, reports the News Agency of Nigeria. NAN reports…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A policeman has allegedly shot himself after killing his wife for filing a divorce against him in Lagos. The policeman was living with his Prison Warden wife inside Prison Barracks on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi. It was gathered that the tragedy occurred Sunday night during a scuffle between husband and wife. A neighbour…
LAGOS OCTOBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than two persons were reportedly killed and about seven others severely injured in a case of ‘accidental discharge’ by an officer of the Nigerian Police Force. The incident, which happened at the burial ceremony of the late mother of the traditional ruler of Umuakoli Urualla in Ideato North Local Government…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two videos are now making the rounds on the protest of students of the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, which turned violent on Tuesday, allegedly leading to the death of one policeman and four students. According to available reports, the students were protesting over erratic power supply by the Benin Electricity…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The peace and tranquility hitherto witnessed by residents of Amukoko, in the densely populated Ajegunle area of Lagos, has been replaced with fear, owing to an ongoing gang war among some youths in the area, which has already claimed 10 lives. At the moment, helpless residents are wearing expressions of fear, sadness…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium on Thursday at Trinity area of Apapa, Lagos when a policeman shot dead a tanker driver. Trouble started when the policeman allegedly demanded for a toll of N1000 from the tanker driver who said he could only afford N500. Our reporter gathered that the refusal of the driver did…
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Bayelsa state High Court 7 sitting in Yenagoa on Friday sentenced Cpl. Vincent Olama to death by hanging for extrajudicial killing. In his judgment, Justice E Eradiri, said Olama was found guilty of killing of a 17 -year-old, Innocent Kokorifa, in Okaka, Yenagoa, on Aug. 18, 2016. The Judge said the…