LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Taliban must immediately cease attacking journalists and searching their homes, and allow members of the press to operate freely and without fear of violence or reprisal, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Since the Taliban took power in the country earlier this week, militants have searched the homes of at…
LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Department of State Services, on Thursday, paraded 12 of Sunday Igboho’s followers, saying one other was being profiled. The DSS said a joint team of security operatives had raided Igboho’s residence early on Thursday based on an intelligence report. Parading the suspects at the national headquarters of the secret police, its…
LAGOS JUNE 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, CP Hakeem Odumosu, has vowed to sniff criminals out of their hideouts within Lagos State as he ordered Area Commanders, Divisional Police Officers and tactical Commanders to embark on massive raids of criminals at their identified blacksports across the state. The Commissioner of Police made the…
LAGOS MAY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Militants from the Islamic State-backed faction of Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), formerly known as Jamā’at Ahl as-Sunnah lid-Da’wah wa’l-Jihād have again attacked a military base in Borno state, killing an army commanding officer. SaharaReporters gathered that the bloody encounter also left six other soldiers dead. The terrorists…
LAGOS MAY 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Officers of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Federal Operation Unit (FOU) Zone A invaded Oja Oba Market in Ibadan in the early hours of Saturday and carted away truckloads of foreign bags of rice. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the officers broke into shops and warehouses in the market…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Daredevil armed robbers invaded Alaba International Market, shot security guard, looted shops and then carted away expensive items worth millions of Naira. The total value of items lost to the looting at the market was not yet ascertained because it was massive as the bandits were said to have invaded the market…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Argentina raided the home and offices of Leopoldo Luque, Diego Maradona’s personal doctor, on Sunday as part of an investigation into the soccer legend’s death. Maradona, 60, died of a heart attack at his Buenos Aires-area home on Nov. 25, just weeks after undergoing surgery to relieve bleeding on his…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Joint Security Task Force has arrested suspected kidnappers following a raid at two communities in Edo state,namely Upper Sakponba and riverine Community. It was gathered that all the suspected kidnappers were males. They were arrested around Ogbemudia oil palm plantation barely 24 hours after the military commenced a seven-day…