LAGOS MAY 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Airbus A320 jet belonging to First Nation has been sold as scrap to a yet-to-be-identified buyer, findings by The PUNCH have shown. The development came about four years after the carrier grounded its operations for technical reasons. The buyer of the disused plane has consequently towed the equipment to a town…
LAGOS MAY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-As part of her maiden voyage to Nigeria, newest Naval war Ship (NNS) ‘KADA’ made a historic stop-over at Port Gentil, Gabon on Saturday, May 21, 2022. It was gathered that this is her last Port Call before her arrival to Lagos. At Gentil, NNS KADA was received by the Deputy…
LAGOS MAY 23RD (NEWSRAGERS)-The Arewa community in Lagos State has said it supports the state government’s ban on Okada, urging its members to comply with the directive. This was stated after a meeting of the group on Sunday where issues bordering on the Okada ban by the state government were discussed. In a communiqué issued…
LAGOS MAY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Lagos High Court on Friday sentenced a Dane, Peter Nielsen, to death by hanging for killing his Nigerian wife and daughter. Justice Bolanle Okikiolu-Ighile convicted Nielsen, 54, on two counts of murder brought against him by the Lagos State Government. The judge sentenced Nielsen to death by hanging on both counts….
LAGOS MAY 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has said that education remained very critical to development, and remained the key to the many problems facing the country. Obi spoke after a breakfast meeting with the Chief Executive of Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council, Rosie Glazebrook, in Lagos on Tuesday. Obi…
LAGOS MAY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Suspected smugglers at the wee hours of Friday attacked a Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) team around Oke-Odo, Lagos, fleeing with a service rifle and a vehicle laden with confiscated rice. The smugglers, said to have outnumbered the Customs officials, ambushed the operatives while on their way to their office at Ikeja to…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos Police Command on Wednesday prevented violence after a truck crushed a masquerade to death in Mushin. The incident occurred along Isolo road around 2:30pm. It was learnt the truck laden with plywood crushed the masquerade around the market axis. The masquerade was said to have died on the…
LAGOS MAY 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Ogun State High Court has ordered prompt detainment of the Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Zone 2 Headquarters, Onikan, Lagos and Superintendent Tijani Taofiq for contempt. The Police officers had disobeyed the court order that asked both the AIG and Taofiq to pay N500,000 and N50,000 respectively as damages in favour of…