LAGOS FEBRUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A police inspector, Oluwadare Nelson Badejo aka Dare, attached to the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), Ikeja, Lagos State Police Command, has fled to Canada after allegedly defrauding several police personnel and civilians of over N48 million for visas. Some angry policemen said Dare used to travel frequently to London and even told them…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person was reportedly killed yesterday when men of the Nigerian Army and those of the Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) clashed in Gboko Local Government Area of Benue State. Apart from the person said to have been killed by stray bullet, several others, among them children, were also injured during the…
LAGOS AUGUST 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police have re-arrested a kidnap kingpin, Hamisu Wadume, two weeks after he escaped from the custody of the Intelligence Response Team (IRT). The IRT operatives they came under attack from soldiers attached to Battalion 93, Takum, Taraba State, as they conveyed Wadume from the scene of his arrest. The attack led…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Fresh information has emerged on what really went down between operatives of the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team and some soldiers along Ibi-Jalingo Road, Taraba State on Wednesday, leading to the shooting and subsequent death of three operatives and a civilian. According to security agents, the order to attack the…
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Presidency has described as false, reports that President Muhammadu Buhari approved the establishment of the state and local government police in the country on Monday. Reports had emerged that President Buhari made the approval on the recommendations of the Presidential Panel on the Reform of Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The reports…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five members of a syndicate that defrauded a newly-wed couple of N900,000, posing as estate agents, have been arrested by operatives of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, attached to the Lagos State Police Command. The suspects, identified as Matthew, 42; Elabor Aruoya, 61; Adesina Abegunde, 54; Segun Adewale, 42, and Olamide Ojajinu, 42,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in Rivers State have recovered 31 Electronic Card Readers (ECRs) believed to have been stolen from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The SRCs were recovered in a bush on Rumuji-Emohua axis of the East-West Road in the Southsouth state. They were allegedly thrown into…
LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Alleged kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike alias Evans on Friday gave graphic details of how members of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Intelligence Response Team and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS), tortured him and killed 30 people in his presence. Evans who made the revelation on Friday during the continuation of a trial-within-trial…