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…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal High Court in Lagos on Thursday ordered the permanent forfeiture of N280,555,010.65 “warehoused” in the bank accounts of Invictus Oil and Gas Limited and Invictus Investment Limited. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told the court that the two firms were owned by Obinwanne Okeke, “a strong leader of a…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons have died and four others injured in a road accident on Mile 2 – Badagry Express Road, Lagos. The accident was caused by overloading, over speeding and dilapidated road conditions. It was gathered that the accident occurred when an articulated truck carrying a 40 ft container knocked down three persons…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-An officer from the mobile police squad was spotted using a ballot box to wash his uniform inside the premises of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state, on Sunday. The INEC office is the collation centre for the Bayelsa governorship election that held on Saturday. Redeployed from…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 18TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Operatives of the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation and Special Offences (Enforcement) Unit have surrounded a house being guarded by a lion on Muri Okunola Street, Victoria Island. PUNCH Metro gathered that the officials had been deployed in the house since Friday after residents petitioned the state government on the presence of the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A 46 year-old pastor, Evangelist Chidi Eke has died while fasting for 40 days and nights in Eziala Nguru in Ngor Okpala council area of Imo State. It was gathered that the deceased, who had abandoned his wife and two children in Lagos and came back to the village, was last year…
