LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be-identified man collapsed and died while jogging on Sunday morning on the WEMCO Road, in the Ogba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the man collapsed due to suspected cardiac arrest and efforts by the people around, who rushed to his rescue, proved abortive as he died on the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) yesterday re-arraigned an American, Marco Ramirez, at the Special Offences Court, Ikeja, Lagos for allegedly defrauding Nigerians in a green card scam. EFCC alleged that Ramirez was a serial fraudster having been previously arraigned on similar offences. According to the anti-graft agency, he was earlier…
LAGOS OCTOBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State has congratulated the Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) on the occasion of its fourth annual conference holding on October 4, 2019 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos. This is contained in a goodwill message sent to the association by his Chief Press Secretary, Rafiu Ajakaye, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Guild of Corporate Online Publishers (GOCOP) has announced Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Most Rev Dr. Matthew Hassan Kukah, as the keynote speaker at its third annual conference holding on Friday, October 4, 2019 at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State. A statement signed by GOCOP Publicity Secretary, Olumide Iyanda, confirmed that the…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Policemen attached to the Lagos State Taskforce on Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences have arrested 28 suspected miscreants and 15 illegal street traders at various locations around Afrika Shrine, Alausa, Ikeja. Chairman of the taskforce, Olayinka Egbeyemi, disclosed this in a statement by the agency’s head of public affairs, Adebayo Taofiq, on…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER (NEWSRANGERS) -In less than four months after the swearing-in of the incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari, presidential campaign posters and billboards of politicians have been found in various places across the nation. In July this year, two large billboards with the picture of Bola Tinubu, an ex-governor of Lagos State and a national chieftain…
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 26-year-old housemaid, Franker Amaha, has been reported to have stolen foreign currencies estimated at N1.6 million six hours into her employment. Amaha, who was known as Esther based on her record with the Agency from where she was employed in Ikorodu area of Lagos State, stole the money from her employer,…
LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-One of the drivers of Airport Car Hire Association of Nigeria (ACHAN), Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Mr. Adeniyi Olayinka, has returned $2,400 (about N888,000) and an international passport forgotten by a passenger in his car to the passenger. Olayinka told journalists at the airport that he discovered the items in…
