LAGOS DECEMBER 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A gas cylinder explosion has left three injured and cars damaged at Four Points by Sheraton Hotels, Oniru, Lagos. The explosion which occurred on Wednesday was said to have been caused by the leaking pipe of a gas cylinder used by welders working in the hotel premises. The explosion shattered several cars’…
LAGOS DECEMBER 2ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Touts allegedly working for dock workers at TinCan, Lagos, at the weekend killed three truck drivers during a protest to stop extortion and other corrupt practices. It was gathered that the killings occurred on Friday evening at TinCan Second Gate, when some of the truck drivers insisted that collecting N20,000 bribe to…
LAGOS DECEMBER 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 15 shops were razed in a fire outbreak at the popular Owode-Onirin Market at Ikorodu area of Lagos state on Sunday Traders mostly, dealing in car spare parts lamented as goods worth millions of naira were destroyed by the fire outbreak. The Director General of the Lagos State Emergency…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 30TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A LASTMA official has lost his life in a most sad manner after being attacked by hoodlums popularly known as ‘area boys’ in Lagos. Ola Oyeshina, an official of the Lagos State Transport Management Authority has lost his life after being attacked by two hoodlums in the Apapa area of the state. Oyeshina…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An Anglican Church Knight, Sir Peter Uche, who led a 7-man robbery gang to invade an MTN mast and steal batteries, has been arrested in Ejigbo, Lagos. PM Express reports that Uche was arrested and his Toyota 4 Runner SUV was recovered with the batteries the gang had already stolen at about…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 27TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Forty-seven Nigerian men pleaded innocent on Wednesday to a charge of public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term. Homosexuality is outlawed in many socially conservative African societies where some religious groups brand it a corrupting Western import. The Nigerian men, who…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 26TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerians who have taken to operating Point of Sales as a means of business and survival are living in fear following reported cases of robbers hunting and targeting them. Operators in Mowe, Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State and those in Ayobo area of Lagos State have already experienced the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 25TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Police in Lagos, on Sunday, said that 26-year-old man Yusuf had drowned inside the National Stadium swimming pool, Surulere. Lagos Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), DSP Bala Elkana, said in a statement that a team of policemen was immediately mobilised to the scene. He said that the victim was rescued and…
