LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Police operatives attached to the Rapid Response Squad of the Lagos State Police Command, between Friday and Saturday, arrested thirteen suspected traffic robbers in Oshodi and Ketu, Alausa areas of the state. This is as it intensifies efforts in mopping up criminals suspected to be attacking motorists and commuters in traffic. The…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-Robbers have been invaded a popular joint, Link Garden Bar, located within the Ejigbo area of Lagos, robbed some customers of their valuables and escaped. P.M.EXPRESS reports that the incident happened at the bar located along Ejigbo/Ikotun, while customers were enjoying themselves. It was gathered that the men of the underworld stormed…
LAGOS JANUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than one thousand youths Wednesday trooped out to the streets of Lagos to protest against the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN) registration exercise in the country, saying it is responsible for the surge in the number of COVID-19 infections in the state. The protesters who gathered in Yaba area of…
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…
