LAGOS APRIL 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The organising committee for the Governor Akinwunmi Ambode farewell football match has confirmed May 18, 2019 for the high-profile game. The epoch match, according to the organisers, would see former World Footballer of the Year and President of Liberia, George Weah, play alongside notable world football legends, including Didier Drogba. The chairman,…
LAGOS APRIL 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tracka, a subsidiary of BudgIT, which tracks the implementation of government projects in their community, on Friday released its report on 2018 road construction by the Akinwunmi Ambode-led government in Lagos State. A statement by Damen Ilevbaoje, Head, Tracka, said while the breakdown of the total cost (N18,545,657,940.00), remains unknown to the…
LAGOS MARCH 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Building Control Agency, on Friday morning, commenced the demolition of defective buildings within Lagos Island. About 180 houses will be demolished in the exercise, according to the General Manager of LASBCA, Mr Lekan Shodeinde. He said 20 would be demolished on Friday. The agency’s task force began with the…
LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday fixed May 6 for judgment in a suit by activist-lawyer Mr Femi Falana (SAN) against the Minister of Works Babatunde Fashola (SAN) and the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC). Falana is praying the court to order the removal of all obstructions on the Oshodi-Apapa…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST (NEWSRANGRS)-The Free Lagos Movement says Bola Tinubu, National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), is positioning his son to become Governor of Lagos State in 2023. The group also accused Tinubu of placing his relatives in key positions in the state, noting that the APC leader has turned Lagos to his…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Youths celebrating President Muhammadu Buhari’s re-election in Alaba Rago, a suburb of Lagos turned violent by unleashing mayhem on traders and residents of the area. Three persons were reported to have been killed and many others including policemen injured as a result of the violent. It was gathered that violence erupted at…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State police command has arrested two ritualist caught with a fresh human head. The suspects were nabbed with the body of their victim whose head was already cut off. According to Lagos State police spokesman, Chike Oti, on Tuesday, November 27, at about 8:30p.m., a team of anti-kidnapping personnel of…
LAGOS JANUARY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The chairman, Coalition of All Atiku Support Groups, Lagos State, Mark Iheanyi has decried alleged lack of campaign materials for about 800 pro-Atiku groups in the state, saying that the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, risks losing over four million voters from the state if nothing is done to…