LAGOS JANUARY 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A student of the University of Lagos, John Akinwale, has landed in the hospital after a power-drunk policeman tortured him to a coma in the Mosafejo, Oshodi area of Lagos State. SaharaReporters learnt that Akinwale was arrested on Monday around 2 pm, after he bought fuel at a filling station, by police…
LAGOS JANUARY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was tension on Saturday at the busy Computer Village market in the Ikeja area of Lagos State after three suspected kidnappers were caught inside a tunnel and arrested by police operatives. SaharaReporters learnt that some traders in the market raised the alarm that some criminal elements were hiding in the tunnel,…
LAGOS JANUARY 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has directed civil servants on Level 14 and below to work from home till February 1, 2021 as part of measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease amid the second wave of the pandemic. This was contained in a statement signed on Saturday by the…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mixed reactions are coming from Balogun Market traders over the shift in the resumption date for business activities after the December 24 closure of the market for the Christmas and New Year holidays. The caretaker management committee inaugurated in December to manage the complex had shifted the resumption date from January 4…
LAGOS DECEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s land border with Benin Republic at Seme, near Badagry, Lagos State, remained closed, more than 24 hours after the Federal Government announced its reopening on Wednesday. A correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who visited Seme on Thursday evening, reports that human and vehicular movement across the border post…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has disputed earlier report on online that Dr Bukola Saraki’s In-Law, Dapo Ijora committed suicide by shooting himself on his head in his house. Contrary to the earlier report, the Lagos State Police Command has affirmed that all evidences that they gathered in the scene where the…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Festac residents and traders at the Olorunda Oyinlola Market on 23 Road, Festac Town, Lagos have berated Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, for giving the go-ahead on the demolition of the market by officials of the Amuwo Odofin Local Government under the supervision of armed soldiers. Speaking, one of the traders who is also…
LAGOS DECEMBER 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A car washer, Idris Ayotunde was on Friday arrested by men of the Ogun State Police command with maroon coloured Ford car with registration number EPE 707 FM, which he stole from his customer in Lagos. The suspect, according to a statement issued by the command image maker, Abimbola Oyeyemi, was arrested…