LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Edo State Government has demolished T. Latifa Hotel owned by Mr. Tony Adun also known as Kabaka. According to the state government, he violated building laws, ‘as the structure sits across a road in the Ugbor-Amagba axis of Oredo Local Government Area of the state’. The hotel building was reduced to…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Majority Leader of Ogun House of Assembly, Mr Yinka Mafe, is dead. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Mafe died on Tuesday night, same day he marked his 46th birthday. Mafe, a member of the Seventh and Eighth Assemblies in the state, was said to have complained of chest…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 17-year-old housewife, Rabi Rabi’u, who stabbed her husband, Shamsu Salisu, to death in Katsina State last Wednesday, has explained that a misunderstanding on who should first charge their mobile telephone led to a scuffle in which he died. Rabi, who was paraded at the Katsina State Police Command Headquarters on Tuesday,…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hell was let loose in the early hours of Wednesday, in Iyana-Ipaja area of Lagos state when dealers of motorcycles, popularly called “Okada,” riders and miscreants, known as “Area Boys,” engaged the police in a violent confrontation over enforcement of the recent ban by state government on Okada and others. The situation…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A policeman, identified as Eze, has reportedly hanged himself in a cell at the State Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department, Yaba. The PUNCH exclusively gathered that the cop, who was attached to a Dangote factory, was arrested after he allegedly shot dead a man. “He was brought to the state CID for…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the governor of Lagos State, insists the ban of motorcycle and tricycles in some areas of the state will not be undone. Sanwo-Olu, said this at the launch of eight locally manufactured speedboats of the state ferry services, Lagferry, held at Badore Ferry Terminal, Ajah. The governor, who also launched…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States has announced an additional 40-million-dollar (N14 billion) aid to Nigeria to address the humanitarian crisis arising from decades of the Boko Haram insurgency. The Secretary of State, Mr Mike Pompeo, who made the announcement in Washington DC on Tuesday, said this was in addition to nearly 350 million dollars…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The young man arrested, on Sunday, with a bomb while service was ongoing at the Living Faith Church (Winners Chapel) in Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, has named his accomplices and targets. In a video clip of his interrogation by police detectives in Kaduna obtained on Tuesday by News Express, the suspect identified himself…
