LAGOS DECEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the early hours of Sunday on Freedom Street in the Ebute Meta area of Lagos State as hoodlums stormed the area, burgled shops and vandalised several vehicles. It was gathered that the hoodlums, numbering about 100, were returning from a party around 2am when they attacked the community….
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has condemned the renewed attacks on Nigerian traders in Ghana, describing it as uncalled for. The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, in a statement by the Commission’s Head of Media and Public Relations, Abdur-Rahman Balogun, said the reported cases of attacks on Nigerian shops and traders…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Unknown gunmen have attacked Oyo State commissioner for lands, Abdulraheem Abiodun, killing his driver in the process. The commissioner was attacked on Wednesday around 8:00 pm just after he was dropped at his residence in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. His escort is being treated at an undisclosed hospital after being shot by…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Men of the Lagos State Neighbourhood Corps on Friday botched a robbery attack on passengers of a BRT bus, arresting two suspects – Kenechukwu Chukwuka and Adam Isiak. The suspects, six of whom are still at large, reportedly boarded the bus from Tollgate, Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway, Ogun State, en route to Oshodi around…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The crisis rocking the All Progressive Congress, APC, Edo state took a new dimension on Saturday with a reprisal attack on the convoy of Governor Godwin Obaseki and the Oba of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu at Iyamoh the country home of the APC National Chairman, Adams Oshiomole. Oba Rilwan Akiolu and Governor Obaseki…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Robbers have started cashing in on the unending gridlock between the Long Bridge and Berger bus stop on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to dispossess motorists and commuters of their valuables. Our correspondent learnt that the hoodlums were attacking motorists and commuters as the gridlock intensified due to the narrowing of the road due…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A bear in a Russian circus turned on its trainer during a show this week and was subdued with a stun gun, adding to the argument that wild animals shouldn’t be used for entertainment. The 660-pound brown bear and handler Ruslan Solodyuk of the traveling Anshlag circus were doing a routine in…
LAGOS OCTOBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Former Governor of Kano State and the immediate past senator representing Kano Central, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, escaped been killed in Kano as armed thugs attacked him. The Kwankwasiyya (a group of Kwankwaso’s supporters) spokesperson, Hajiya Binta Sipikin, alleged that the thugs members of the All progressives Congress (APC). They reportedly laid an…