LAGOS OCTOBER 27TH (NEWSRANGRS)-Suspected kidnap kingpin Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike, popularly known as Evans says his confessional statement after his arrest last year (2017), was given under duress. At the resumed hearing of his case on Friday, he told an Ikeja High Court, presided over by Justice Hakeem Oshodi that he was tortured before writing the statement….
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad (FSARS) have been warned by the Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, to stop chasing after internet fraudsters in the country popularly known as ‘Yahoo boys’. This, IGP Idris said, was because the “specific role” of the FSARS is to nip “robbery, armed robbery, and kidnapping…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector General of Police (IGP), has initiated measures that would result in the total reform of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) unit of the Force, the Police have announced. Police spokesperson, Force headquarters, Jimoh Moshood, who gave this indication in a statement on Friday, and made available to Daily…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In protest over the killing of one of them, Tunde Nafiu, the people of Iwo town in Osun State, South West of Nigeria, have set a police station ablaze. Nafiu was said to have been killed by members of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. Nafiu, described as a student of the Federal…