LAGOS FEBRUARY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Scores of houses were affected as downpour and flood hit Lagos State on Tuesday morning. Many residents of Nigeria’s economic nerve centre were also stranded in their residential apartments and in their cars as major roads were submerged by flood after months of heatwaves in the state. In a statement, the South…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-At least 18 shops were razed by an inferno that was caused by a gas tanker on Tuesday night at Agbado Road, Iju Ishaga, Lagos State. A press statement issued by Lagos State Fire and Rescue Service said the fire incident started around 10pm after a gas tanker “accidentally caught Fire and…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Gunmen suspected to be kidnappers have reportedly hijacked GUO motors coming to the South-East from Lagos State, South West Nigeria and abducted all passengers. The kidnappers reportedly killed the driver of the bus and left a little girl behind after kidnapping her parents alongside other passengers. Although SaharaReporters could not ascertain the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 7TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos State Taskforce has arrested 51 suspected members of a highway gang notorious for harassing and extorting truck drivers along the Apapa/Oshodi and Lagos/Badagry Expressways in the State. The arrest was effected on Tuesday following a successful operation led by the chairman of the Taskforce, CSP Shola Jejeloye. A media aide…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) yesterday apprehended an articulated truck driver after crushing a scavenger pushing wheelbarrow to death by Mile 12 market, Ikorodu Road, Lagos. The Director, Public Affairs and Enlightenment Department of LASTMA Mr. Adebayo Taofiq confirmed that the accident happened between a 16-tyre an articulated…
Lagos State chapter of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on security agencies and governments of Lagos, Ogun and Oyo States to urgently intervene and secure the release of the abduction of the Chairman of Lagos State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Hon Philip Aivoji. The party stated that it was disheartening that kidnapping has become…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has no plans to move the country’s capital from Abuja to Lagos, his office says. The presidency blamed political opponents for such rumours, saying “there is no iota of truth” in them. The speculation began before Mr Tinubu, who once served as governor of Lagos, took power last…
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Nigeria Police Force hereby warns against the recent disturbing trend of self-kidnapping (false kidnapping), which is a punishable offense under the laws, and cautions the public against engaging in such activities as there are legal consequences associated with this criminal act. This is following observed incidents of self-kidnapping in various…