LAGOS MAY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen invaded the premises of Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS), Awada, Onitsha station on Sunday, and brutalised some staff members who were on night duty. An eyewitness said the gunmen burnt a building, a company bus and another vehicle parked on the premises. While noting that no life was lost in the attack,…
LAGOS MARCH 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium at Idi-Oro, in the Mushin area of Lagos State, on Wednesday, when a tanker loaded with Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) exploded at a Mobil Filling Station in the community. The fire was said to have spread to an adjoining three-storey building, burning down the property. PUNCH Metro gathered that…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One person was feared killed and many confirmed injured on Saturday when armed thugs attacked the Soka residence of Yoruba Nation agitator, Sunday Adeyemo aka Sunday Igboho, in Ibadan, Oyo State. Igboho’s lead lawyer, Yomi Aliyyu (SAN), confirmed the attack in a telephone chat with The PUNCH on Saturday. Our correspondent also…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The residence of a renowned Islamic scholar, Sheikh Gumi, in Kaduna was on Saturday razed by a fire outbreak, whose cause still remains unknown as of the time of filing this report. A source, who pleaded anonymity, said the fire started at the Islamiyya School located within the compound of the Islamic…
LAGOS OCTOBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS0-The spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress, Lagos State chapter, Joe Igbokwe, has accused members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra of invading his house in Nnewi, Anambra State, and setting it ablaze. Igbokwe took to his Facebook page on Sunday to lament the invasion and arson. Igbokwe, who is also the…
LAGOS JUNE 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ex-Nigerian international Yakubu Adamu has been arrested in Germany for allegedly setting a house in Chemnitz on fire, according to a report by Bild (via Germany-in24). Adamu, who spent a year in the Bundesliga with St. Pauli in the early 2000s, is believed to have committed the crime after he was seen…
LAGOS JANUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Yoruba Activist, Sunday Igboho escaped death as invaders set his house ablaze early Tuesday morning. The building is his Soka residence in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. A source close to the Yoruba activist confirmed the incident to DAILY POST. He said the attackers main target which is Igboho gained access into…
LAGOS DECEMBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Police in Osun state has discovered five dead bodies in the apartment of a vulcaniser. It all started when Police on Monday arrested the vulcanizer identified as Alamu after dead body of a missing woman was found in his house. According to report, Alamu, popularly known as Hawua, works around Yemoja compound,…