LAGOS SEPTEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 20,000-litre fuel tanker fitted with a concealed compartment containing 2,145kg of cannabis, in a major breakthrough in its nationwide crackdown on illicit drug trafficking. The tanker, marked MKA 960 XC, was intercepted along the Akoko/Lokoja Expressway in Ondo State on Friday, 4…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Spanish second-tier football match was abandoned after a fan suffered a fatal heart attack. The Sporting de Gijon versus Leganes match was halted after just four minutes when the home team supporter fell ill at the 29,371-capacity El Molinon ground. Medical responders were mobilized to assist 82-year-old Constantino Rodriguez, a Sporting…
LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-When former California Highway Patrol officer turned stay-at-home dad Gregg Musgrove started “treasure hunting,” the 56-year-old certainly never imagined he’d end up with a king’s bounty — the King of Pop, that is. A trove of cassette and DAT tapes containing unreleased Michael Jackson tracks were found in a storage unit deep…
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 JUNE 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A baby girl was found abandoned under a parked bus on Wednesday at Mile 12 in Ketu, Lagos. This was disclosed by the spokesperson of Lagos Police Command, SP Benjamin Hundeyin on his Twitter handle. According to Hundeyin, a Lagosian who set out for work at about 4:30 am on Wednesday, June…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The remains of late Senator Joseph Wayas who was President of Nigeria’s Senate in the second Republic (1979-1983) has reportedly been abandoned in a London hospital. Wayas died in December 2021 at a London hospital, following a lingering illness, which some family members attributed to poverty. Family sources told Daily Trust that…
LAGOS JANUARY12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Immigration Service ( NIS) on Tuesday said about 140,000 international passports are still uncollected nationwide. The service spokesman, Deputy Comptroller of Immigration Service ( DCI) Mr Tony Akuneme, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) , when he paid an official visit to the Alausa…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Officials of Lagos Rapid Response Squad (RRS) has recovered a Toyota Highlander, a locally made cut to size double barrel gun with three live cartridges, a dog (American Eskimo breed) and jewellery from fleeing armed robbers in Alagbado area. Also found in the vehicle with the registration number AGL 276 AQ, were:…
