LAGOS SEPTEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Government has restated a warning that okada riders and passengers found culpable of operating in certain locations where it has been banned will be jailed three years on conviction. Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde issued this warning at a news conference to announce the kick-off of total enforcement…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A man, Daniel Chigozie, has landed in trouble in Lagos State after he allegedly conspired with a Medical Doctor and a nurse to sell his three-month old baby for N400, 000 without the consent of his wife and they were eventually caught. P.M.EXPRESS reports that he was arrested alongside his accomplices including…
LAGOS AUGUST 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A pregnant lady, identified only as Chinaza, has approached doctors at the National Hospital in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to seek buyer for her unborn baby. PUNCH Metro gathered that when the 23-year-old lady got pregnant, she left her parents house in Imo State to live with her friend in Lagos…
LAGOS AUGUST 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-I was driving on Third Mainland bridge and had a flat tyre just before the Yaba turning. As I pulled off the road to change the tyre, a police man approached me asking what the problem was. Before long he had called his colleagues and they were helping me change my car…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministry Wednesday ordered one of its pastors at Okija, Anambra State, to shut down what it called illegal facility being operated by the pastor as a deliverance outfit. The church, in a statement by its Director of Administration, Temitope Akintayo Olawale, said, “Although the alleged pastor is…
LAGOS AUGUST 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Lagos residents have expressed worries over the increasing use of minibuses, popularly known as Korope, for kidnapping and armed robbery in the state. According to residents, the vice increased after the ban of Okada in parts of the state, where motorcycles were often used to rob citizens. A resident told The Guardian…
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Lagos State Fire Service said one person was injured when an explosion was recorded at an independent marketing filling station in Badagry, Lagos state on Monday night. Abel Husu, the Station Head, Badagry Fire Service, Lagos State, confirmed the incident to the News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN) on Tuesday. He…
LAGOS AUGUST 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-A video which captured the moment Labour Party Presidential candidate, Peter Obi received a rousing welcome while being ushered in at the ongoing Nigeria Bar Association general conference in Lagos, has been shared online. Asides Peter Obi, three other leading presidential candidates, Atiku Abubakar of PDP, Bola Tinubu of APC and Rabiu Kwankwaso…