LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A rickety passenger train veered off the tracks in the Agege, Mangoro area of Lagos in the early hours of Thursday, January 10, 2019, with casualty figures yet to be ascertained at the time of filing this story. Social media users say traffic along the Ikeja-Along—Iyana Ipaja axis has come to a…
LAGOS JANUARY 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The official campaign flag-off of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State was marred following several gunshots by miscreants who engaged in free for all. At least two persons have been feared dead, while several others, including journalists sustained different degree of injuries. The crisis started when fight suddenly broke out…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Imohimi Edgal, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, says it will take legal action against those behind a photoshopped image of a policeman. Edgal has also called on the general public to disregard the picture of a policeman bearing a banner on which was inscribed: ‘IS NOT OUR DUTY TO FIGHT BOKO…
LAGOS DECEMBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, at the weekend gave an idea of how he and the party’s Presidential Candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, would fix the country’s economy if voted into power by Nigerians during the February 2019 election. Obi, who was fielding questions from newsmen…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-In a bid to commemorate the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ, Christ Gospel Mission International, Abeokuta District 1 Headquarters will on Sunday 23rd of December 2018 hold a Christmas Carol Concert. The theme of the programme is “His Majesty” and ministering will be the Divisional Choir Master, Elder J. O. Ijaola,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A man the police described as a notorious Boko Haram Commander was yesterday arrested in Lagos. The suspect, Abdulmalik Umar, was said to have been responsible for the death of more than 200 people. Umar, 39, was arrested by operatives of the Inspector General of Police (IG) Intelligence Response Team (IRT) around…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Angry mob on Tuesday was reported to have set a conductor ablaze for stabbing a passenger to death. According to our source, the passenger who alighted from the commercial bus at five star bus- stop along Oshodi-Apapa expressway demanded for his N100 which the conucted said he do not have. “Further demand…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy occurred in the early hours of Wednesday, December 19, 2018, in the heavily populated Abule Egba, area of Lagos State when a spillage from a fuel tanker that was siphoning petrol from a vandalized pipeline suddenly burst into inferno, razing several houses and vehicles in the process. Fortunately, there was no…