LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The driver of a ride-hailing service, identified simply as Tade, recently lost his life to armed robbers, who shot him dead around Badore in the Ajah area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that a yet-to-be-identified customer requested Tade’s service to convey him to a destination in the state and he drove…
LAGOS JANUARY 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Son of late billionaire transporter and owner of Ekene Dili Chukwu Motors is dead 42 year old Augustine Ilodibe Jnr died in Lagos from COVID-19 complications according to this press release from his family obtained by CKN News “With great sadness we announce the passing unto glory our dear son, husband, father,…
LAGOS JANUARY 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Caretaker Management Committee of Balogun market, Lagos Trade Fair Complex, has shifted its resumption, earlier scheduled for Jan. 4, to Jan. 11, for security reasons, the Secretary of the committee, Mr Leonard Ogbonnia has said. Ogbonnia said in a statement on Sunday, in Lagos, that it would be risky to reopen…
LAGOS DECEMBER 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The shutdown was to stop vibrations caused by movement of vehicles for contractors to cast concrete on additional three expansion joints in the ongoing rehabilitation of the bridge. NAN reports that the Third Mainland Bridge, which was going through series of repairs, had to be partially shut on July 24 for another…
LAGOS DECEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Five armed robbers of a gang on Tuesday, attacked two Guardian Journalists, and robbed them of their possession at Cele Bus Stop, on the Oshodi-Apapa expressway. The journalists, whose name were given as Stanley Akpunonu and Ngozi Egenuka, said that the robbers gave them a terrible beating before parting away with 2…
LAGOS DECEMBER 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ten persons escaped death in Lagos on Wednesday when armed hoodlums numbering over 100 struck around the 6th Avenue area of FESTAC Town wielding guns and other dangerous weapons. The authorities of the Lagos State Police Command, who confirmed the attack, added that policemen, who were deployed in the area successfully dispersed…
LAGOS DECEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 49-year-old evangelist, Chinwe Ekwe, on Monday told an Igando Customary Court in Lagos State that her husband is a womanizer and he sleeps with church members. Chinwe spoke while responding to a divorce suit filed by her husband, Pastor Paul Ekwe, who had accused her of planning to kill him, NAN…
LAGOS DECEMBER 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Musician Seun Kuti has denied pulling a gun at a man during a clash with partygoers who blocked the entrance of his home on Saturday on Akin Osinyemi Street, off Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. Seun was called out by party goers on Twitter. A woman identified as Temitayo Ayetoto who describes herself…