LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of Rapid Response Squad (RRS) have arrested the security guard of a telco company based in Ogba, Ikeja for stealing and selling the firm’s electricity cable worth N632,000 to a scrap metal buyer for N30,000. The security guard, Adebayo Afeez, 37, was arrested in the company’s (name withheld) premises after the…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRNAGERS)-A white Toyota Hilux Pickup with registration number FG79-A23 has been reported stolen in Abuja. The car owned by the Nigerian government is attached to the Federal Ministry of Police Affairs. The Police Ministry is to, among others initiate, formulate and implement policies and programmes relating to policing and internal security as…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said over 80 per cent of Nigeria’s crude oil were stolen. Obasanjo stated this in Abuja at the launching of a book titled, ‘Court and Politics,’ written by Dr. Umar Ardo, a former associate of the ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar. According to the former president, one of the…
LAGOS JULY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three days after he was declared missing, the six-month-old baby, Chinedu Chukwueke, has been found abandoned in an erosion ditch several kilometres from Minna, the Niger State capital, where he was stolen. The boy was reportedly stolen at his mother’s saloon in Kure Ultra Modern Market, Minna, Niger State capital last Sunday….
LAGOS JULY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nine months after the multi-million Naira airfield lighting systems at the domestic runway 18 Runway/36Left of the Murtala Muhamed Airport were reinstalled, information reaching the Nigerian Tribune has indicated that the entire lighting system on the runway has been mysteriously carted away. The criminals were said to have taken advantage of the…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo-Asari, an Ijaw activist, has said that 80 billion dollars was stolen under the administration of Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, a retired Nigerian army major general, served as the president of Nigeria from 2015 to 2023. Asari Dokubo has claimed that huge funds were stolen in the name of fuel subsidies…
LAGOS APRIL 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Peel Police Inspector Stephen Duivesteyn speaking at the Toronto Pearson international airport.The Canadian Press / Alamy Live News The incident appears to represent one of Canada’s biggest heists, but it is not the first to unfold at one of the country’s airports. In 1990, another Canadian airport heist made headlines after armed…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Police detectives from the Idimu Division, Lagos State, have arrested a dog meat seller, Success Akpan, after a stolen dog was traced to his pepper soup pot, which he was already selling to his customers before he was caught. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at Olorunsogo Street, Ejigbo area of…