LAGOS JULY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has rescued a two-month-old baby boy from a couple, Mr and Mrs James Uwam, during the naming ceremony of the child in the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Benjamin Hundeyin, in a statement on Saturday, said the couple paid N2,350,000 to buy the baby from…
LAGOS MAY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, on Saturday, May 25, 2024, narrated how two women were struck dead by lightning during rainfall in the FESTAC area of the state. Hundeyin disclosed this on his X handle, adding that the women, who were living in a shanty…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGER)A Lagos State High Court, sitting in Ikeja, yesterday, Nov. 29, restrained the Federal Housing Authority, FHA, and Lagos State Building Control Agency, LSBCA, from further demolition of residential houses in 6th Avenue, Festac Town, Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. The trial judge, Justice Omolade Awope, had granted the…
LAGOS AUGUST 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three major illicit drug syndicates were taken down by operatives of a special unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in intelligence-led operations across parts of Lagos state, leading to the arrest of a baroness and four other kingpins with multi-billion naira worth of Cocaine, Opioids and Loud recovered from…
LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Four Naval officers have been accused of attacking an anti-robbery police patrol team in the Satellite town area of Lagos state, stabbing one of the police officers identified as ASP Abion Hezikel to death on Saturday, December 3. According to police sources who confirmed this incident to LIB, the four Naval officers were riding…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court sitting at the Tafawa Balewa Square on Thursday remanded two boys, Farouk Mohammed, 16, and Kasali Jamiu, 19, at the Special Correctional Centre for Boys, Oregun, and the Ikoyi Custodial Centre, respectively. Justice Sherifat Sonaike remanded them after they were charged with the murder of a Redeemed Christian…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents, of 1st Avenue, Festac, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos, were said to have been confronted with the lifeless body of an unidentified middle-aged man hanging from a mango tree in the early hours of Wednesday. The gory incident, was said to have taken place opposite a popular hotel, in the red-light district,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State. Our correspondent gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town….