LAGOS FEBRUARY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than eleven people were reported to have been rescued alive from a collapsed two-storey building on Sunday in Lagos. According to available information, the incident occurred in the early hours of Sunday. Rescue operation was still ongoing at the site of the collapsed building at 1, Community Road, off Old…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja, has sentenced a police officer, Mrs. Ngozi Onwuka, to three months imprisonment over visa fraud. Onwuka was charged before Hon. Justice Mojushola Dada, by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) on a one-count bordering on making false statement to a constituted…
By Jerome-Mario Utomi. LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Eko Convention Centre, Lagos, venue of the meeting was lavishly decorated to impress, and it did impressed. The participants were corporately kitted; men and women alike. All seated in such a manner that could be mistaken for, fresh law graduates being called to the Nigerian Bar or shareholders…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons were on Thursday feared dead when commercial motorcyclists, popularly known as okada riders, and operatives of the Lagos State Task Force on the Environment clashed. The clash was said to have occurred on Isolo Road in Mushin area of the State when the Task Force members moved in to apprehend…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 6H (NEWSRANGERS)-There were emotional scenes as Miss Kechi Okwuchi, a survivor of the 2005 Sosoliso plane crash that claimed many lives visited The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd (SPDC) end January to express gratitude for the medical and financial assistance the company rendered to her after the tragic incident. Kechi, her…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of late Dr. Sunday Ogunyade of Gbagada, Lagos, has cried to President Muhamadu Buhari, the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), the House of Senate and the governor of Lagos State to wade into the problem they have with 11plc, former Mobil Oil. Ogunyade family has alleged that Mobil Oil…
LAGOS JANUARY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A supervisor at Chrisland School in Lekki, Lagos, Adegboyega Adenekan, was on Monday arraigned at an Ikeja High Court for allegedly defiling a two-year-old pupil in his care. The Supervisor, 47, pleaded not guilty to a charge of defilement of a child. The Prosecution, led by Titilayo Shitta-Bey, the Lagos State Director…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians have begun to sell the 13-page statement addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari by a former Nigerian President, Olusegun Obasanjo, in traffic in major cities around the country. PREMIUM TIMES reporter observed on Wednesday that in Lagos, copies of the ‘special statement’ printed and bound were being displayed and sold in traffic…
