LAGOS JULY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has arrested the miscreants who were seen charging people N100 to use a makeshift crossover bridge at the Trade Fair area of the state. This was made known in a statement by the state Commissioner for Environment and Water Resources, Tokunbo Wahab, on X.com. The arrests came after…
LAGOS MAY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A violent confrontation occurred, yesterday, between diesel hawkers and a group known as ‘Show Boys’ at Mile 2, on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway, Lagos, with one person feared dead and several others injured. There were different accounts of how the fight broke out. A version of the account said the clash allegedly stemmed…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Truckers and importers have decried multiple extortion experienced in the hands of ‘area boys’ across the roads in Lagos state. The area boys are to be inflicting hardship on the truck owners and truck drivers by making life and business difficult for them. Speaking with Daily Sun on the menace, truck owners…
LAGOS OCTOBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person was feared dead in Alaba area of Lagos State following a clash between traders at Alaba Market and Area Boys. The confrontation, which began in the early hours of Wednesday, led to the closure of the market as traders refused to open. According to information made available to The Eagle…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hoodlums popularly known as ‘Area Boys’ have attacked the convoy of the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu in Lagos State. Tinubu, according to a report by AIT, was attacked at the Adeniji end of Isale Eko after the former Lagos governor paid a visit to the Oba…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Gangster Level” – Portable Hires Area Guys To Track Down And Discipline His Ex Friend For Calling Him Ungrateful Portable has shown his Former friend who the real gangster is with an action that many has already condemned. The old time friend of Portable identified as DJ Chicken has been on the…
LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As the Lockdown over Coronavirus persists, a food vendor who was on his way to supply food items to some market women, was attacked by some hoodlums along Airport road, Ajao Estate, Lagos on Sunday April 12th. A video making the rounds on social media, shows the vehicle after it was attacked by the hoodlums…
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…
