LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be-identified man was shot dead while several others sustained injuries during a violent clash that erupted at the All Progressives Congress primary election in the Ikotun area of Lagos State on Saturday. PUNCH Metro learnt on Sunday that the incident occurred during the party’s primary election held at a primary…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of at least eight communities in Lagos State were plunged into a state of panic following coordinated invasions by suspected hoodlums and armed robbers. Findings by PUNCH Metro revealed that the separate incidents left seven communities within the Oshodi area and another community in Ikotun gripped by fear. While the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, Miracle Adereti, has called on the police to locate the whereabouts of their daughter who was kidnapped by an unknown gang in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. Miracle was said to have been kidnapped while returning from school on Friday, December 1. It was gathered…
LAGOS AUGUST 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be-identified woman was crushed to death alongside her two-year-old daughter in the Ikotun area of Lagos on Thursday. PUNCH Metro reports that another trader was injured as a bus rammed into some shops along the roadside opposite Toluwalase Hall, Governor’s Road, Ikotun. An eyewitness, who gave his name as Tayo, said…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck over the weekend at Egbe area of Ikotun, Lagos, after a water tank fell from its stand through the roofing of the house, killed a 20-year old man, Jamal Nureni and seriously injured three other victims while they were asleep in the early hours of the morning. P.M.EXPRESS reports that…
LAGOS JANUARY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A suspected armed robber has been lynched by an angry mob for allegedly robbing a unisex salon on Governors Road in the Ikotun area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the suspect was part of a three-man gang that attacked the salon around 11am on Saturday and dispossessed both workers and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 33-year old jobless man, Samuel Olorunleke, has been arrested in Lagos State for pretending to be a reliable customer after he went to a popular hotel, took choice drinks worth N32,000 and refused to pay while claiming that he had no money because he was jobless. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident…
LAGOS AUGUST 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 45-year-old woman and her five-year-old daughter were among eight persons who died Thursday in a stampede that occurred during a prayer service organised by the Comfort Life Mission International church in the Ikotun area of Lagos. Many worshippers also sustained severe injuries in the stampede. The bodies of the yet-to-be-identified woman,…