LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A LASTMA official has lost his life in a most sad manner after being attacked by hoodlums popularly known as ‘area boys’ in Lagos. Ola Oyeshina, an official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority has lost his life after being attacked by two hoodlums in the Apapa area of the state. Oyeshina…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A truck driver, Ibrahim Shagari, has been crushed to death by a fellow truck driver, Obinna Nzekwe, on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway in Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the 47-year-old Nzekwe and 33-year-old Shagari were both driving their container-laden trucks with number plates AKD 180 XP and SMK 402 XS, respectively, when…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons have died and four others injured in a road accident on Mile 2 – Badagry Express Road, Lagos. The accident was caused by overloading, over speeding and dilapidated road conditions. It was gathered that the accident occurred when an articulated truck carrying a 40 ft container knocked down three persons…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A boat conveying journalists across flooded parts of Sampou community on Nun River in Kolokuma Opokuma Local Government Area of Bayelsa State capsized and threw the four occupants into the water. News Agency of Nigeria reports that the boat was carrying four journalists covering the governorship elections, including its correspondent. The journalists…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) during the 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has joined in mourning former Minister of Petroleum resources, Prof. Tam David-West, describing his passage as “painful”. A famous virologist, Prof. David-West died on Monday at UCH Ibadan, aged 83. Obi in a statement late Monday…
LAGOS OCTOBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian lady Dibbie Onwu has been stabbed to death at Wood’s Homes in Southwest Calgary, Canada. The suspect whose identity was not revealed as at press time has been arrested and taken into Police custody. Onwu, a health worker and a native Irete in Imo State was stabbed to death at…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck residents of Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja in the Alimosho area of Lagos on Saturday as the flood swept away an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, one Wasiu into a canal linking Aburo and Iyana-Ipaja on Ige Road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited the scene of the accident…
LAGOS OCTOBER 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Uganda announced plans on Thursday for a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals, saying the legislation would curb a rise in unnatural sex in the east African nation. The bill – colloquially known as “Kill the Gays” in Uganda – was nullified five years ago on a technicality and…
