LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Joint security forces, led by the Anambra State Police Command, have destroyed a camp allegedly operated by unknown gunmen in Nimo community, Njikoka Local Government Area of the state. The camp, located in a bush called Owa Land, was reportedly used as a launch pad for attacks across the state and a…
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Labour Congress has confirmed that its national office in Abuja was invaded by security operatives, believed to be from the Department of State Services and the Nigeria Police Force on Wednesday night. According to a statement by NLC spokesperson Benson Upah, late on Wednesday, the operatives arrested the security guards,…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Judge of Lagos State Justice Kazeem Alogba has warned magistrates in the state from issuing arrest and search warrants to security operatives without approval from his office. This directive was contained in a recent notice made available to all of the state’s magistrates. The notice was signed by the Deputy…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Security operatives comprising police, army and local vigilante men yesterday killed three kidnappers along the Benin/Ekpoma road, in Edo State. The incident occurred at Okhuo, a community close to Ehor, headquarters of Uhunmwode local government area of the state. The rampaging kidnappers had reportedly taken over the ever busy highway on Tuesday…
LAGOS DECEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security agencies on Tuesday said they uncovered dead bodies, decapitated human heads and roasted bodies at the ESN members and kidnappers camps during their last Monday operation which led to the arrest of over 30 kidnappers. The Imo state Director of Security Services, DSS, Wilcox Idaminabo, disclosed this to newsmen in Owerri,…
LAGOS AUGUST 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Security forces killed at least 115 people in southeast Nigeria this year and arbitrarily arrested or tortured scores of others, in response to violence from separatists agitating for autonomy, Amnesty International said on Thursday. A Nigerian presidency spokesman declined to comment on the information set out in an Amnesty report. Police and…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Troops and police operatives in the early hours of today, Friday, 7th May, 2021 engaged bandits in the Rigachikun axis of the Kaduna-Zaria dual carriage way in Igabi LGA. The bandits had earlier attacked a Fulani settlement belonging to a popular herder, Damina Kukumake, at Kukumake village Samuel Aruwan, Commissioner, Ministry of…
LAGOS JULY 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Armed security operatives have surrounded the home of former managing director of the NDDC, Joy Nunieh, in Port Harcourt. Rivers State Governor, Mr Nyesom Wike is reportedly moving to intervene in the stand-off. It was gathered that the former NDDC boss is due to appear before a House of Representatives Committee in…