LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Some hoodlums reportedly attacked Labour Party supporters in the Epe Local Government Area of Lagos State on Saturday, March 11, 2023. It was gathered that a former Commissioner under Governor Akinwunmi Ambode’s administration, Hon. Olawale Oluwo, narrowly escaped unhurt when some unidentified hoodlums suspected to be political thugs reportedly shot at him…
LAGOS MARCH 11TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Labour Party governorship candidate, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour, says Nigerian youths are 90 per cent close to taking over governance and having their dream country materialise. The 40-year-old LP candidate disclosed this at a meeting tagged, “Youth O’ Clock” in Ikeja on Thursday, where he said new Lagos would birth new…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Hadi Sirika, the minister of aviation, on Thursday, revealed that personnel of the Nigerian Safety Investigation Bureau (NSIB) have been instructed “to move quickly” to probe the fatal rail accident that happened in Lagos on Monday. POLITICS NIGERIA had reported how two people died and several others were seriously injured when a…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Personnel of the 9 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, yesterday, recovered 1,671 Permanent Voters Cards, PVCs, in an apartment in the Olodi-Apapa area of Lagos State. Three persons were subsequently arrested in the apartment, while the prime suspect was said to be on the run. Also recovered in the apartment were ballot…
LAGOS MARCH 9TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Anything that would reduce Lagos from being a city open to everybody, detracts from its Centre of Excellence status and therefore unacceptable, Babjide Sanwo-Olu, Governor of the state, said on Wednesday. A guest of The Morning Show, a breakfast programme on Arise Television, Sanwo-Olu, who condemned the attack on certain residents in the…
LAGOS MARCH 8TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Seun Kuti, the Afrobeat singer, is of the opinion that Lagos is a “European satellite slave port” owned by the Portuguese. In a series of Instagram posts on Tuesday, Seun argued that people who think Lagos is a “no man’s land or a Yoruba land are wrong”. According to the singer, Lagos…
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…
