LAGOS APRIL 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Amid lockdown occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, residents of Aiyetoro community in Ajegunle, in the Ajeromi Ifelodun Local Government Area of Lagos State are living in fear of hoodlums popularly known as Awala Boys. The thugs who belong to different factional groups have reportedly been terrorising residents and passersby since 2018, dispossessing…
LAGOS MARCH 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Chief Executive Officer, CEO, and Chairman of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, Chris Olakpe, is dead. It was learned that Olakpe, a retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police died on Sunday, as confirmed by LASTMA’s Director of Research and Statistics, Isaac Adetimiro. He also said Olakpe did not show any…
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-With information reaching us, it is a sad news to say. Our own Nigerian Former Professional League Chairman, Oyuki Obaseki is dead. He, Obaseki, who was also the second vice president of Nigeria Football Federation, NFF, has been battling an undisclosed ailment for almost 3 years. He died early Sunday at the…
LAGOS MARCH 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Priest of the Roman Catholic, Rev Fr. Charles Okeje-Odogwu, was reportedly found dead in his car with the engine running in front of the parish gate on Tuesday, March 24. The priest before his mysterious death was the Vicar of Holy Cross Parish, Oroma Etiti community in Anambra West Local Government…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Senator Ben Murray-Bruce has lost his wife, Evelyn, to cancer. The former Bayelsa East senator announced his wife’s passage on Friday. He wrote: “I’m broken. Just lost my beautiful wife to cancer. She was my best friend for 43 years and my wife for 41 years. Cancer is real, but it shouldn’t…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An unspecified number of people including security personal have been reported killed by a Boko Haram attack on Damboa Village. A local vigilante source told The Nation that the insurgents had earlier written to the communities of Damboa of their planned attack. Though they were said to have made several failed attempts until today…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 200 cows have been killed by strange disease at Margadu Fulani community in Guri local government area of Jigawa State. According to Sanusi Doro, the local government information officer in Guri, the head of department of agriculture, Guri local government council, Kabiru Haruna, made this known to newsmen. Mr…
LAGOS MARCH 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigeria man killed his HIV positive wife on Monday in south south Nigeria, where his wife have tested positive for HIV virus.. Police said the murder took place in a village near the Olokobiri on the outskirts of south city of Calabar, where thousands have been screened in the last month….