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,…
LAGOS AUGUST 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 29-year-old man identified as Sanni Gafar has been apprehended by a mob, who suspected him of being a terrorist, in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos State. Naija News reports that the police, however, rescued the suspected terrorist before the mob lynched him. This incident was confirmed on Monday in a post…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A crash involving two vehicles in the early hour of Tuesday 2nd August, 2022 along Alaro City, Epe, Lagos State has claimed sixteen lives with five others injured. The crash occurred at 0300hrs due to impaired visibility as a result of reckless driving within the construction corridor. Statement signed by Route Commander…
LAGOS JUNE 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-In an effort to curtail the unprecedented surge in the number of citizens that wish to register as voters and the challenges they face across the country, the Independent national Electoral Commission (INEC) has decided to deploy additional 209 machines mainly to the five South Eastern States, Lagos and Kano where the…
LAGOS JUNE 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Candid Estate community, Araromi Ale in Badagry Local Government Area of Lagos State was thrown into pandemonium this morning ( Tuesday ), when a man, Wasiu, allegedly stabbed dead his pregnant wife, Fathia, and attempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the stomach. The woman’s throat was slit with a…
LAGOS JUNE 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In what will come across as a really startling development, three siblings have been found dead inside a parked car they were playing in at Owode Elede area of Ikorodu, The Nation has learnt. The kids identified as Oliseh, Daniel and Destiny Egba, three, six and eight years respectively, were feared to…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-There was pandemonium in the Amule area of Ayobo, Lagos State, on Saturday, when members of the Nigeria Automobile Technicians Association, Ayobo unit, reportedly engaged in a fight over land. PUNCH Metro gathered that a former chairman of the unit allegedly assaulted two panel beaters, Matthew Idowu, and Sunday Olowolaiyemo, over the…
LAGOS MAY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A five-year-old pupil of the Redeemers Nursery and Primary School, Ogba, Lagos State, Chidera Eze, has drowned during a swimming lesson organised by the school in the Ikeja area of the state. PUNCH Metro gathered that some teachers and caregivers of the school took Chidera and his colleagues for the swimming lesson…