LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was confusion on Monday at the Berger area of Lagos State after a yet-to-be-identified great-grandmother slumped while climbing a pedestrian bridge. PUNCH Metro gathered that the woman, believed to be in her late 70s, wanted to connect to the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in company of her daughter when the incident happened. When…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Tragedy struck on Tuesday at the Elegushi Beach, in the Lekki area of Lagos State, after four teenagers drowned while swimming in the water. PUNCH Metro gathered that 10 secondary school leavers, aged between 14 and 15, went to swim at the beach to celebrate the completion of their West African Senior…
LAGOS AUGUST 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Two men lost their lives on Tuesday while fighting on the Oshodi-Oke inward Gbagada Expressway, Lagos State. It was gathered that the victim were fighting on the expressway when they were both the hit by an incoming vehicle. Confirming the incident, the Permanent Secretary, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Oluwafemi Oke-Osanyintolu, said…
LAGOS JULY 31ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The recent surge in terror attacks in Abuja has sparked fresh security fears across the country’s main cities over the large number of undocumented foreigners who are mainly engaged as guards and other domestic hands. Residents and security experts say such foreigners could turn easy tools in the hands of terrorists. he…
LAGOS JULY 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The family of a Bureau De Change operator, Modibo Usman, has been thrown into mourning after he died from shock following an encounter with two officers of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority in the Surulere area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that Modibo, who was hypertensive, was being conveyed by…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-There was panic in Berger, Lagos As masked men and officials of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit, aka Task Force, on Tuesday, raided commercial motorcyclists at Berger Bus Stop, Lagos State. PUNCH Metro noted that the masked men pushed down the Okada riders from their bikes at…
LAGOS JULY 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos journalist and member of Crime Reporters Association of Nigeria (CRAN), Mr Frank Oshonogor and other passengers escaped death by a whisker when the commercial bus in which they were travelling to Obalende, Lagos lost control and crashed onto the pavement of the Third Mainland bridge and almost plunge into Lagos lagoon….
LAGOS JULY 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Panicking parents were seen weeping bitterly yesterday when no fewer than two pupils died, while others passed out after they suffocated in their school bus in Aguda area of Lagos state. The driver of the school bus, Odunsa Mandala, was taking the pupils back to their homes after the close of school when the incident…