LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-One dead, two police vans, other vehicles destroyed as truck drivers and members of the presidential task force team clashed in a face-off on Thursday. As at the time of filing this report, the Lilypond terminal gate, two police Hillux vans were still on fire. The cause of the face-off is not…
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Visitors at the United States Consulate, Victoria Island, Lagos, were compelled to vacate the main building yesterday following a security threat. The evacuation, which happened at about 12.20 p.m., was the climax of repeated radio warnings that began a few minutes earlier. Armed and unarmed security operatives immediately took strategic positions within…
LAGOS OCTOBER 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-The Tolaram Group, maker of Indomie Noodles, is building the biggest port in West Africa on the east side of Lagos with $1bn facility from China, according to the Financial Times. A report in Financial Times on Tuesday said the Singapore-based company was set to close financing this week for what could…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A yet-to-be-identified man collapsed and died while jogging on Sunday morning on the WEMCO Road, in the Ogba area of Lagos State. PUNCH Metro gathered that the man collapsed due to suspected cardiac arrest and efforts by the people around, who rushed to his rescue, proved abortive as he died on the…
LAGOS OCTOBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-18-year-old Elikor Ehud, pictured above, has been arrested by men of the Ejigbo police station in Lagos state for allegedly storming a church in the area and carting away the church’s tithes and offering. A statement released by the state police command’s spokesperson, Bala Elkana, says on October 1st, one Pastor Moses Nwoke …
LAGOS OCTOBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Director General, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, SON,Dr Joseph Odumodu has said that the Agency is ready to tackle issues of fake and substandard products coming into Nigeria, with the approval of African Continental Free Trade Agreement, ACFTA, by government. The SON boss made this known through his representative, Engineer Enebi Olutoye…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A woman was on Thursday mobbed in a Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) bus at Onipanu Bus Stop in Lagos on allegation that she was responsible for the disappearance of the private parts of three men. A journalist with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), who was at the scene, said the unnamed…
LAGOS OCTOBER 10TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Pensioners of the Nigerian Ports Authority on Wednesday protested at the NPA Headquarters in Marina, Lagos, against the irregular increment in their pensions since 2008. The pensioners under the aegis of NPA Pensioners’ Welfare Association told the News Agency of Nigeria that the protest became necessary after several attempts to meet the…