LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Two tout brothers from same parents were on Wednesday afternoon, reportedly lynched and set ablaze by angry mob at Haruna/Bida junction, within the Onitsha Central mosque axis, near Oniitsha Main market, for extorting and robbing tricycle and commercial bus drivers. It was gathered that the brothers, simply identified as Omuma and Sunday,…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A driver has been confirmed killed during a clash between tanker drivers and some hoodlums at Mile 2 area of Lagos. The police the killing was being investigated, but multiple sources said at least four persons were feared killed and many others injured in the clash on Tuesday. It was learnt that…
LAGOS JULY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) has raised the alarm on increasing extortion along the access roads of the Lagos and Tin Can Island Port Complexes. This is coming on the heels of the clearance operations the Authority undertook on 16th to 18th July to rid the Port corridor of shanties and illegal…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The extortion menace that is currently impacting on haulage businesses on the Nigeria’s Apapa port corridor has now become institutionalised as truck owners and drivers now include money for extortion as part of their operational cost. They also said that the extortionists have become so brazen are ready to kill, maim and…
LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Zonal Command of the Nigeria Police Force, Zone 16, has arrested and detained four personnel involved in the alleged abduction and extortion of N20 million from two suspected internet fraudsters, popularly known as Yahoo boys, in Bayelsa State. DAILY POST gathered that the arrested police personnel confessed that two civilian accomplices,…
LAGOS MAY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Corruption has become an integral norm at Lagos ports and all efforts to curb the menace by authorities at various levels seem to have failed. Extortion and brutality of truckers have become a game played by both state and non-state actors along the port corridors. Investigations have so far revealed that no…
LAGOS APRIL 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Idowu Owohunwa, has ordered the immediate removal of the Divisional Police Officer of Okokomaiko, SP Emmanuel Edebagha, for lack of supervision of his men. The CP also ordered immediate disciplinary action against Edebagha and all officers involved in the act. This was disclosed by the state…
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…