LAGOS APRIL 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of seven riders with 245 motorcycles impounded around Mile 2 and Apapa Road. The Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos state, Ben Hundeyin, made this known in a tweet on Thursday. “In continuation of our enforcement of the existing ban on the…
LAGOS MARCH 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The United States on Tuesday said it was disturbed by widespread cases of ethnically-induced voter suppression in Lagos during the March 18 governorship election, saying such action would not go unpunished. The U.S. mission in Nigeria, in a statement on its website, said such acts undermine Nigeria’s democratic experience and visa bans would…
LAGOS MARCH 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party governorship candidate in Lagos State, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says one of the party agents has been shot dead. According to Gbadebo, the unnamed agent was killed in the Apapa area of the state by thugs suspected to be members of the ruling All Progressives Congress. “From all over Lagos, we…
LAGOS MARCH 16TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The traditional ruler of the Ikate-Elegushi Kingdom, Saheed Ademola (Kusenla III), has declared a three-day Oro rite on non-indigenes and women from midnight to 5:30 a.m., including on Saturday’s governorship and state assembly election day. In a memo issued to the residents of Ikate-Elegushi, the monarch announced that there would be a…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The leader of the socio-cultural group, Afrnifere, Pa Ayo Adebanjo has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to release the actual voting results of Lagos State in the just concluded Presidential and National Assembly election. Pa Adebanjo who spoke on Arise TV alleged that the presidential candidate of the Labour…
LAGOS MARCH 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The son of King Sunny Ade, the ace Juju music maestro, George Folarin Adegeye, has been declared the winner of the Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency seat in Lagos as the candidate of the Labour Party (LP). The politician’s mother was Risikat Ajoke Adegeye, the late wife of Sunny Ade, who was also a…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Oba Abdul Ganiyu Aderibigbe Asunmo, the Alayandelu of Odo-Ayandelu in Ikosi-Ejinrin Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Lagos State, has cried out over activities of cultists in his domain. The monarch said cultists have crippled both economy and social activities in his domain, while his life is already exposed to danger. Oba Asunmo…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-When shoe salesman Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019, he was one of more than a million Nigerians backing the former army chief in his stronghold of northern Kano State. Home to Nigeria’s second largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north,…