LAGOS MARCH 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a 15-year-old boy, Pelumi Sulaimon, have been thrown into mourning after soldiers attached to Operation MESA allegedly shot him dead around Makoko, in the Yaba area of Lagos State. According to residents in the area, the soldiers were hired by political thugs to carry out a reprisal on their…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Public Relations Officer, Lagos State Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, has opened up on the rumored attacks of Igbo traders in Lagos. The African Examiner writes that there have been rumors that thugs were attacking the businesses of Igbos in Lagos after the Independent National Electoral Commission, (INEC), announced that Peter Obi, the…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Police Command on Sunday said over 20 political thugs have been arrested in connection with cases of electoral violence and ballot box snatching recorded in parts of the state during Saturday’s presidential and National Assembly elections. The spokesman for the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin said the police…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps vehicle conveying election materials from Abuja to Lagos crashed on Friday evening, election eve. The accident reportedly occurred at the Giri Roundabout bridge in Abuja. The vehicle was also carrying operatives of the NSCDC to Lagos. In a video on social media, people are seen rendering…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Friday intercepted the sum of N32,400 million allegedly suspected to be used for vote buying in Lagos State. The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, in a statement, revealed that the recovery was made by operatives of the Lagos zonal command of the commission He…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Labour Party (LP) in Lagos State on Thursday condemned INEC for omitting party’s logo in the Senatorial and House of Representatives’ ballot papers ahead of the Saturday’s General Elections. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that INEC on Wednesday took delivery of sensitive materials for the Presidential and National…
LAGOS FEBRUAYRY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The act of man’s inhumanity to man was brought to limelight on Monday by the Force Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police, Muyiwa Adejobi, who narrated how a woman Police Inspector of a division in the Lagos State Police Command was detained for demanding money from a relative of a suspect…
LAGOS FEBRUARU 21ST (NEWRANGERS)-Afenifere National Youth Council (ANYC), yesterday, endorsed the candidate of Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, for President in the forthcoming general election, while calling on other Yoruba to vote for him. The National President of the group, Eniola Ojajuni, who spoke at a meeting in Lagos, said it was the turn of…