LAGOS NOVEMBER 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Pension Commission (LASPEC) on Thursday disclosed that no fewer than 1, 620 staff of the Lagos State Public Service and Parastatals were expected to retire in the first half of 2020. Mrs Folashade Onanuga, Director-General, LASPEC, disclosed this at the 17th Retirement Benefit Documentation Seminar for employees in the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Residents of Ajegunle in Ajeromi-Ifelodun Local Government Areas of Lagos State have urged government to save them from incessant attacks by suspected hoodlums. It was gathered that many properties have been destroyed in the wake of the attacks. ‘’Many houses have been abandoned because as a result of the effect of fighting…
LAGOS OCTOBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 30-year-old applicant, Sulaimon Agboola, who pleaded guilty to throwing stones and bottles at police officers on duty, has been remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Facility, Apapa, Lagos. Magistrate M.O. Tanimola ordered in Ikeja on Friday that the defendant should remain behind bars pending review of the facts of the case and…
LAGOS OCTOBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos State Government Friday alerted residents on the rise of sea water level resulting in the inability of the lagoon to discharge water into the ocean causing backflow into the drainage channels. In a statement by the Commissioner for the Environment and Water Resources, Mr Tunji Bello, the officials of the state…
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu says the state will pay its workers above the N30,000 new national Minimum Wage. Sanwo-Olu made the promise on Tuesday when the state leadership of the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and the Joint Public Service Negotiating Council paid him a courtesy…
LAGOS OCTOBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck residents of Aboru and Iyana-Ipaja in the Alimosho area of Lagos on Saturday as the flood swept away an 11-year-old boy and his rescuer, one Wasiu into a canal linking Aburo and Iyana-Ipaja on Ige Road. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who visited the scene of the accident…
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 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The former General Officer Commanding of the 8 Division, Sokoto State, Maj. Gen. Hakeem Otiki, under whom five soldiers allegedly escaped with about N400m, is undergoing a course at the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, Badagry, Lagos State. The acting Director, Army Public Relations, Col. Sagir Musa, confirmed this to our correspondent…