LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Divisional Police Officer (DPO) in charge of Naka, the headquarters of the Gwer West Local Government Area of Benue State, Superintendent of Police Mamud Abubakar has been killed in an ambush by suspected herdsmen operating in the area. Abubakar was responding to a distress call from road users along the Naka-Makurdi…
LAGOS MAY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Bar Association, Benin Branch, Edo State has called for the immediate removal of the Divisional Police Officer, Etete Police Division Benin City, Adesuwa Omoruyi, and some other officers for alleged extortion and harassment of citizens in the area. The association accused the DPO of turning the station into a cash…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The police in Ogun State have arrested three suspects in connection with the abduction of four policemen at Aba Tuntun village, Ijebu-Igbo, in the Ijebu North Local Government Area of the state. Some hoodlums had reportedly waylaid a team of policemen in the village on Thursday, abducted four of them and shot…
LAGOS JULY 1ST (NEWRANGERS)-Suspected gunmen on Monday invaded a police station in Agudama community in Yenagoa Local Government of Bayelsa State, firing and killing four police personnel. The yet-to-identified officers that were killed included the Divisional Police Officer, a pregnant policewoman and two policemen who were on duty. The gunmen carted away rifles, ammunition and…